Word: philanthropist
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Some curbstone quipster uttered the inevitable gag: "It must have been a Republican who complained." Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning. The complainant was an unidentified neighbor lady, whatever her politics, and she was finding it kind of hard to sleep, what with Dutch Adler's rhythms blaring from the open windows and most of the 110 partygoers thunderously doing all those modern dances. "Would you close a couple...
Lehman, 46, has no need of borrowed names. Grandnephew of the late Herbert Lehman, who as financier, philanthropist, Governor and Senator made the name part of New York lore, Orin took up the family's anti-Tammany tradition last fall when he ran against the organization in a primary for the Democratic nomination as comptroller and came in second. Though he lost a leg in World War II while serving as an artillery-spotter pilot, Orin is hyperactive in a multiplicity of good works, ranging from civil rights to rehabilitation of the physically handicapped, stumped seven gallant miles...
Died. Sarah Mellon Scaife, 62, art patron and philanthropist, heiress to a share in the estimated $2.5 billion Mellon industrial and banking fortune, who in 1941 established the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation (one of six similar Mellon foundations which have given away over $300 million), through which she donated $26 million to Pittsburgh universities, museums and charities; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh...
...incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that the old tycoon is guilty of multifarious fornications, industrial sharp practices, attempted treason, and coveting his own son's young wife. The girl ha.s a father complex, and the old man has a Mom problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally...
Died. Leonhard Felix Fuld, 82, wealthy Manhattan recluse and philanthropist, whose fortune from stocks and real estate topped $25 million at his death and whose abiding interest (he never explained why) was the health of student nurses, for which he gave hospitals some $10 million over the years, all the while living with a sister in one of his Harlem tenements, until she died of malnutrition in 1956; of arteriosclerosis; in Trenton...