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Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...
Married. John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., 77, philanthropist; and Martha Baird Allen, 56, former concert pianist, widow of one of Rockefeller's Brown University classmates; he for the second time, she for the third; in Providence...
...table, and you'll find Soriano's initials on it." Don Andres Soriano not only leaves his mark on a mountain of paper work, but keeps a thumb on just about everything that moves in the Philippines. He is the islands' best-known businessman, biggest philanthropist, runs an industrial empire which provides the livelihood for 80,000 Filipino families. His enterprises' taxes (close to $30 million a year) make up 10% of the government's total tax revenue. His fortune is estimated as high as $30 million...
...week's show supported a conclusion that time and later critics reached long ago: besides being one of the most biting social satirists and moralists who ever etched an engraving, Hogarth at his best could paint circles around most of his contemporaries. His portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, philanthropist-founder of London's Foundling Hospital, displays a British humor and humanity that Hogarth's two famous 18th Century successors, Gainsborough and Reynolds, too often sacrificed for a slick and fawning elegance. His March of the Guards Towards Scotland, an action-filled canvas of the departure of George...
...million worth of Manhattan subways); after an operation for an intestinal ailment; in Baltimore. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...