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Britain's No. 1 philanthropist, Viscount Nuffield, 65, complained some five years ago that his good works had caused him five times as much trouble as his business. Having given away some $60,000,000 he swore he would give no more. But last week he headed into more trouble: for scientific and medical research, public health, social studies, and "the care and comfort of aged people" he created a $40,000,000 trust fund. Peacetime automaker (Morris, Wolseley), Lord Nuffield is now one of Britain's main armorers, also one of her most unreconstructed individualists. Chief financial...
Child prodigies often grow up distorted. But Sam Reshevsky was fortunate enough to come to the attention of the late great Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who made him give up exhibition chess at the age of 13 so he could get an education. By the time he was 23 and resumed playing, Reshevsky proved that his early talent had been no flash in the pawn. At the 1935 International Masters Tournament at Margate, England, little Sam copped first prize-outwitting among others, onetime World's Champion José Capablanca...
Today, under a LaGuardia-appointed board headed by hustling young James Marshall, son of the late famed Lawyer-Philanthropist Louis Marshall, the school are growing smaller, doing better. But the school system is still too big for its breeches...
...ghost-like Harvard graduate has remained incognito to all Harvard officials, including Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, for over a decade. Bingham has corresponded with the unknown, philanthropist through the trust officer of the First National Bank of Boston, but has never learned the name of Harvard's great swimming patron...
Maintaining that Providence, Rhode Island, has violated the provisions of the will of the late Charles H. Smith, wealthy Providence philanthropist, the University filed suit last Thursday against the city to establish its claim to the estate, which at the time of Smith's death amounted to over $1,000,000 and now has an annual income...