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Walter H. Annenberg, media magnate and prolific philanthropist who gave $25 million to Harvard undergraduate education, died yesterday of pneumonia...
DIED. W. CLEMENT STONE, 100, positive-thinking philanthropist who turned $100 of his savings into a multibillion-dollar insurance empire that later became the Aon Corp.; in Evanston, Ill. He used his wealth to make $275 million in charitable contributions and political donations, including millions he gave to Richard Nixon's election campaigns...
...into a porch crowded with youths, injuring three of them; on charges of first-degree murder; in Chicago. Some 100 people are believed to have stood by and watched while the suspects, all gang members, pummeled the motorists with their hands, feet, bricks and stones. DIED. HARRY QUADRACCI, 66, philanthropist and entrepreneur who started a tiny company in an abandoned factory and turned it into the $2 billion-a-year Quad/Graphics, printer of TIME, Newsweek, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other magazines and catalogs; in an accidental drowning; in Pine Lake, near his home in Chenequa...
...Overseer Joseph J. O’Donnell for control of the hometown team, but Werner won’t be joining O’Donnell as an Overseer. Richard N. Zare, a Stanford professor of Chemistry and Physics, and Rozlyn L. Anderson ‘77, a prominent black philanthropist, rounded out this year’s field...
...meantime, the house is still vacant and very much for sale. At the April 18 meeting in which the Pi Etas voted the Sigma Chis out of the corporation, the board discussed an offer of $3.3 million from noted philanthropist Gregory Carr. He proposed to use the historic building as a headquarters for his human rights education foundation. Soon, though, he realized that the site was not big enough to suit his purposes, so the building was again up for grabs...