Word: philanthropists
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DIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 86, sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...
DIED. Abram N. Spanel, 83, founder in 1932 and chairman from 1949 to 1975 of the International Latex (now Playtex) Corp., the bra and girdle maker, who was also a notable philanthropist, mostly to medical research, and a gifted inventor who held more than 2,000 patents; of congestive heart failure; in Princeton, N.J. Born in Russia and reared in Paris until at ten he moved to the U.S., Spanel was probably best known to the public for his habit of regularly buying newspaper space, at a cost of millions over four decades, to promote his beliefs, notably world unity...
...whose leadership built a debt-ridden, one-product soda-fountain business into a giant multinational, making Coke a favorite in all but a few countries and merely one of the company's 250 products, which included flavor essences, citrus drinks and coffee; in Atlanta. Woodruff was also a prodigious philanthropist who gave away an estimated $350 million, much of it anonymously, to medicine, the arts and education...
...think it's rather romantic to be a Negro?...My father says Negroes are the tragic figures of America. Isn't it exciting to be a tragic figure? It's a kind of destiny!" In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, 30 years earlier, a white philanthropist said almost the same thing...
DIED. Sylvan N. Goldman, 86, inventor of the shopping cart and multimillionaire philanthropist whose fortune was estimated last year by Forbes magazine to be $200 million; in Oklahoma City. Supermarket Owner Goldman built the first shopping-cart prototype in the mid-1930s using a folding chair as a model. The idea, which he patented and eventually marketed, came to him while he watched women using then standard market baskets. Said he: "They had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy...