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Died. Lucius Nathan Littauer, 85, glovemaker and first citizen of Gloversville, N.Y.; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Gentle, bald, waving-mustached Littauer was Harvard '78, a high-tariff Republican Congressman (1897-1907), a philanthropist whose most noted single gift ($2,250,000) founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist...
...eyes. Never since doctors discovered how to replace fogged corneas with clear ones from corpses (TIME, April 13, 1936) have there been enough eye transplants to go round. Doctors estimate that the cornea operation could help 100,000 U.S. citizens to see, but it is a rare type of philanthropist who at his death gives his sound eyes for this purpose...
Outside his administration, Dewey has three close advisers whom he consults frequently: George Zerdin Medalie, Jewish philanthropist who, as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, gave Dewey his start in public life; Herbert Brownell, Manhattan lawyer, onetime leading liberal in the State Legislature; John Foster Dulles, an idealistic, international-minded attorney who was one of the leading authors of the "Six Pillars of Peace" (TIME, March 29) proposed by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...
Author Train's Ephraim Tutt, says Tutt, is not the real Tutt. Train's Tutt, he continues, is not even consistent, changes from story to story, from "mountebank to philosopher, from shyster to philanthropist, from lawbreaker to up holder of the Constitution." The real Tutt is a rebel...
...couple of student songs for Tannenbaum College (of this institution of learning, Ruby characteristically notes: "A feudal Icrd scattering largess among the peasants as he rides through the village in a coach-and-four is a philanthropist. The fact that the peasants are the source of his ill-gotten wealth makes no difference; he is a philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known...