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...Miss Ellen," the eminent 89-year-old philanthropist, was the eighth. First was Italian stage actress Eleanora Duse, whose portrait ran on the July 30, 1923, issue. The cover story, a little over one column long (not unusual in those days), noted, "She preferred to make entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor...
Rita Hauser has neither white hair nor a neck tie. For the philanthropist and Harvard enthusiast, the preponderance of men in Harvard's fundraising push was a problem for the University...
DIED. FREDERICK P. ROSE, 75, builder and philanthropist; after a brief illness; in Rye, N.Y.; on Sept. 14. Enthusiastic and mercurial (he made origami animals out of foreign currency), Rose donated more than $95 million to such New York institutions as Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hayden Planetarium...
What drives this blue-collar philanthropist? One spur is his own thwarted desire for higher education. Growing up the fifth of seven children in Shreveport, he had to drop out of school after seventh grade to help support his family. "I always wanted to better myself," says Dawson, "but I came up in the Depression. I had to work...