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DIED. EVANGELINE BRUCE, 77, writer, philanthropist and influential grand master of the dinner-party politics of being wife of a diplomat (Foreign Service fixture David Bruce) at home and abroad; in Washington...
...private funds to accomplish their goals. The late '60s saw the inception of National Endowment for the Arts funding for the arts at Harvard, but for the most part all programming derives its funding from the income of endowments. The Fogg itself opened with a gift from New York philanthropist Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg. The Busch-Reisinger additions and most recently the Werner Otto Hall have all been built with private money...
...contribution, the gift of John C. Whitehead, a prominent New York philanthropist, will be used to create the John C. Whitehead Fund for Not-For-Profit Management...
...Philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller believed in John G. Bennett Jr. So did singer Pat Boone, Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell and former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, as well as an array of institutions ranging from the University of Pennsylvania to the Nature Conservancy to the National Museum of American Jewish History...
...left his well-bred, moneyed American wife of nine years, Antonia Phillips, 43 (with whom he has two sons, ages 8 and 10), for a younger American girlfriend. She is Isabel Fonseca, the financially robust, thirtyish daughter of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and granddaughter of the late New York philanthropist Jacob Kaplan...