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...writer, a retired industrialist (he was head of Norton Simon Inc.), is an art collector and philanthropist...
GOLO MANN, West German historian: Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, valiant pessimist and warm philanthropist, was good for his own age. In our time, vacillating between two very different types, Franklin Roosevelt and Konrad Adenauer, I choose the former because his achievements had greater significance for world history. His demagoguery was tempered by humanity; he could not hate. He was fearless and had humor, two virtues that Bismarck, too, possessed; he radiated hope and meant well by people, which Bismarck...
...seemed to me... most appropriate that some time be set aside for all of us who formerly had to hang our heads when Mother's Day and Father's Day rolled around," Stewart R. Mott, millionnaire philanthropist and 1973 Non-Father of the Year, explained...
Thus music lovers heard with relief that Avery Fisher, 67, a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi components, has given an estimated $10 million to maintain what now becomes Avery Fisher Hall, and the fourth Lincoln Center building named for benefactors. Philanthropist Vivian Beaumont Allen gave $5,000,000, Arts Patron Alice Tully, an estimated $5,000,000, and Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse...
Divorced. John W. Warner, 46, Secretary of the Navy since 1972 and a landed squire in Virginia's fox-hunting set; by Catherine Mellon Warner, 36, daughter of the Pittsburgh philanthropist and near billionaire Paul Mellon; after 16 years of marriage, three children; in Fairfield, Idaho...