Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walter H. Annenberg, a philanthropist who once owned TV Guide and served as ambassador to Great Britain, gave Harvard $25 million to fund undergraduate financial aid, undergraduate seminars and the renovation of Memorial Hall...
...Harvard officials announce they have received a $7 million gift to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. The money, from philanthropist Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, will help the larger project of converting Memorial Hall into a first-year dining hall that is also a Commons, home to rehearsal space and social space. The gift is heralded by deans, but some students and house masters have concerns about how the new commons, expected to open in September 1995, will affect the house system...
...also the leading philanthropist in Eastern Europe...
...Bleichmar are a pleasure to watch, exhibiting a flair for ribaldry and broad comedy. Cohen has a marvelous protean quality which is ideal for a production like this, where the actors have to play multiple roles. Bleichmar revels in the characters she plays, from Mr. Herbert the gringo philanthropist to Tobias' wife Clotilde, and she can incite giggles just by the way she pronounces the word "rabbits...
Phyllis Wallace, the pioneering economist, Reginald Lewis, the financier and philanthropist, Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Ashe, and John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie...