Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After plastering London with handsome SAVE THE STUBBS posters, the Tate managed to collect $900,000. By November they were still short, when aid came from an unexpected source. Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who recently gave much of his priceless collection of 18th and 19th century British paintings to Yale, had been considered the most likely foreign buyer if the Tate fell short. But Mellon, a self-styled "galloping Anglophile," felt the paintings should stay in England. He contributed four paintings from his private collection, two Vuillards, a Bonnard and a Giacometti, to a benefit auction. They went for about...
...popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in the past five years has somehow managed to give away more than $33,000 of his own money. Most of it has gone, in $1,000 checks, to strangers whose misfortunes or good deeds he has read about. Some of his beneficiaries: a Colombian orphan who needed heart surgery; a couple...
Died. William D. Pawley, 80, financier, philanthropist and a former ambassador and special envoy to several Latin American countries; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Sunset Island, Fla. Pawley disclosed in the 1960s that President Eisenhower had sent him to Cuba in the final weeks of the Batista regime in an effort to persuade the dictator to abdicate in favor of a caretaker government. Batista refused, and Fidel Castro took control of the country...
...Atlantic Richfield in the newspaper business is Robert O. Anderson, 59, Arco's chairman. A part-time cattleman (his 1 million acres of ranch land make him one of the nation's largest individual landowners), philanthropist and self-styled student of social problems, Anderson is chairman of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a social science think tank with offices round the world...
...Died. Gustave L. Levy, 66, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist and G.O.P. fund raiser; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Born in New Orleans, Levy started work in New York City at 17 as a runner for a brokerage company. He joined the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs & Co. (current assets: $1.2 billion) in 1933 and became a partner in 1945. Beneficiaries of Levy's charity included Manhattan's Y.M.H.A., where he had left an unpaid bill of $2 during the Depression...