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...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, publishing magnate, philanthropist and art connoisseur; in Wynnewood, Pa. After inheriting the Philadelphia Inquirer from his father, he founded two hit magazines, Seventeen in 1944 and TV Guide in 1953. One of the world's wealthiest men (estimated net worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan...
This seemingly multi-footed entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist is Gregory C. Carr, one of Harvard Square’s most quietly influential people...
...Manoukian Public Service Program, announced earlier this month, was endowed by a London philanthropist and includes a fellowship for Armenians to study for a master’s degree at KSG and an executive training program for Armenian government officials...
...Manoukian Foundation, which financed the program, was founded by Vatche Manoukian, a philanthropist who now lives in London...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, American media magnate, philanthropist, art collector, and confidant to several postwar Republican presidents, who from 1969 to 1974 served as Richard Nixon's Ambassador to Britain; in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Annenberg's flagship publication was the ubiquitous TV Guide, which he founded in 1954 and which hit a circulation peak of nearly 20 million in the mid-1970s...