Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many millions Pennsylvania Heiress Helen Clay Frick, 75, daughter of Steel Baron Henry Clay Frick, has poured into the University of Pittsburgh. She established the Pitt Art Department in 1927, later gave the school a blank check to stock her Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Library. Seven years ago, she donated a splendid Frick Fine Arts Museum. As always, she demanded secrecy about the overall cost of the building and its collection, but this time she also demanded control over the building's operation and personnel. At last, her aversion to modern art and her criticism of the staff...
...property to a new corporation in exchange for stock, could also apply to individual stockholders. His Centennial Fund drew 191 investors, who pooled securities worth $25,800,000. Berger's idea has been widely copied. Boston's Vance, Sanders & Co. operates four funds currently worth $311.2 million. Pittsburgh Fund Manager John F. Donahue, 42, a West Point graduate and onetime SAC pilot, will, with six new funds registered before the cutoff date, soon be overseeing 13 swaps with a total of $500 million in them...
Shepley was born to journalism. His father was editor of the Harris- burg (Pa.) Daily Patriot. Jim cubbed on that paper after attending Dickinson College, went on to the Pittsburgh Press and the United Press. He worked for the U.P. in Washington until 1942, when he joined TIME'S bureau in the capital. To be a Washington correspondent had been the dream of his youth...
...dealer, Lord Duveen, Madame Ambassador began acquiring her extensive collection of czarist icons and chalices when they were put on sale by the Soviet govern-ment at 50 per gram of silver content. Mrs. Post and Davies were divorced in 1955, and she subsequently married and divorced Pittsburgh Industrialist Herbert May. The names of her latest escorts (Hotel Consultant Serge Obolensky, former Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth) provoke speculation in gossip columns, but friends insist that she does not plan to marry again. Her schedule would scarcely leave her time...
Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw-whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets...