Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot seems to have been transplanted, intentionally or not, from two comic movies, Phfffs and Captain's Paradise. Bill Rudd (William Hillier) and Peter Strickland (Jerry Vermilye) share an apartment which Bill uses for purposes of seduction, decorating it with big-game trophies, while Peter pretends he's a philanthropist and has suitable trappings. In due time Bill seduces Peter's all-American girl friend (Lucy Stone). This event, plus an example of self-remunerating charity, turns Bill into a Good Man who gives groceries to poor people. Peter, meanwhile, realizes that Goodness doesn't pay; so they switch roles...
Died. Samuel Briskin, 70, strongwilled, Russian-born philanthropist who recovered from a sinus condition that nearly killed him, founded the Revere Camera Co. (home movie cameras and projectors) in 1937, was board chairman until 1960; of cancer; in Chicago...
...members. The council stands on the credo of its longtime executive vice president, Rabbi Elmer Berger: "We are Americans by nationality, Jews by religion only." It was founded in 1943 by 15 Reform rabbis and some 25 laymen, and is supported largely by Pennsylvania's Lessing J. Rosenwald, philanthropist, art collector and onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. It has helped establish religious schools (now numbering about a dozen in the U.S.), donates relief funds for some of the 1,000,000 Palestinian refugees displaced by the Arab-Israeli war ($3,000 last year). Arabs consider the council...
...donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...
...paintings to meet the indefinable requirement of the chosen theme-that they be masterpieces. But it was plainly a task for taste-and thus one that would have been cheerfully shared by the woman in whose memory the benefit collection was organized, New York City Art Patron and Philanthropist Adele Rosenwald Levy, who died 13 months...