Word: philanthropoid
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...Gardner was president of Carnegie, living in a modest home in Scarsdale, N.Y., just four doors down from another philanthropoid-Dean Rusk, then president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Gardner usually came home with a fat briefcase, went to work soon after dinner. Checka recalls that "when we were children, we always went to sleep to the sound of a typewriter." Gardner made a point of placing his desk "right in the traffic pattern for everything in the house" so as not to miss anything...
...father of the modern Illinois Institute of Technology, was the best head New York University ever had. Now, as U.S. education's No. 1 Lord Bountiful and as the nation's chief philanthropoid, he has the delicate task of keeping the world's biggest foundation both bold and cautious, risky but responsible, of being himself the Pioneer in the Grey Flannel Suit. It is the duty of a foundation, he once said, to "pioneer ahead of popular opinion." Then he added characteristically: "To be ahead -but not too far ahead...
Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings. Often he takes along a quartet of gospel singers and a soprano. Philanthropoid LeTourneau backs up his evangelistic zeal with the $13,000,000 LeTourneau Foundation...
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