Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago museum, on the lakefront near the University of Chicago, was born to keep up with technology: the original building was part of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. For a while afterward it was the home of the Field Museum of Natural History. Reconstruction began in 1926, after Merchant Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald returned from a visit to Munich's famed Deutsches Museum, which pioneered in developing industrial exhibits the visitor could operate. He and his eight-year-old son William, were fascinated. Rosenwald gave the equivalent of $8,000,000 in Sears, Roebuck stock, and by the time...
...sections, too, you will find news that is not conveyed by the headlines or the bulletins. SHOW BUSINESS, for instance, covers Manhattan's most unusual entertainment (it happens on the sidewalk). Music tells about one of the newest and most exciting masters of the dance, LAW about a philanthropist who would like, if he could, to bail out every prisoner in the land. BUSINESS talks about the comeback of the small grocer, and RELIGION about a hotel that owes more to Moses than to Conrad Hilton...
Louis Kahn and Sculptor Isamu Noguchi have produced a design for a $1,000,000 playground to be carved out of Riverside Park. Proposed as a memorial to the late Philanthropist Adele R. Levy, the layout includes a grass-covered amphitheater, a pyramid and some handsome free-form sculptures designed to tempt the clambering young. But by the time the park engineers, the evaluators, the experts and the mayor are through with the plans, many a moppet may well have hair gone grey at the temples...
...rest of the money will probably come from smaller private donations, as has the money already received. "It will be very close," Harp said. "What we really hope for is a kind philanthropist who can solve it all." Last year the Project received a large hunk of their total the day before the plane left for Africa...
Married. Lady Jeanne Campbell, 35, only daughter of the Duke of Argyll's first marriage, newspaper columnist for her maternal grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; and John Sergeant Cram III, 31, South Carolina gentleman farmer descended from Financier Jay Gould and Philanthropist Peter Cooper; both for the second time (she divorced Novelist Norman Mailer in December); somewhere in Maryland...