Word: spelman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Borrell about his family's flight to Lithuania three weeks after the invasion, while Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's famous propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in the Caribbean and looked 20 years . younger than her age (87). Leonora Dodsworth tracked down Edda Ciano, Mussolini's eldest daughter, at her elegant...
Consequently, black schools have had to address one of their oldest financial weaknesses: small and infrequent alumni donations. In November, when Bill and Camille Cosby made a $20 million gift to Spelman College, the event received widespread publicity; yet modest donations have been the norm. That shows signs of changing, however. During the past fiscal year, alumni support at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute topped $1 million for the first time, aided by three gifts of $125,000 or more...
...result of this outpouring of pride, black colleges have seen their endowments rising. The United Negro College Fund reported a record $44.1 million in contributions for its past fiscal year. Bill Cosby's announcement in November that he would donate $20 million to Spelman College, the Atlanta institution from which his daughter graduated, was another dollar sign of support from black parents...
...would require in return is for a few Harvard scholars to deign to venture into such schools as Morehouse or Spelman for a year at a time. Presto, Harvard would have a minority presence on its faculty...
...audience fills the cavernous chapel of Atlanta's Spelman College to hear Presidential Aspirant Jesse Jackson, Nils Kongshaug of CBS News is already seated in the back, notebook at the ready, savoring the gospel choir. "One thing that's great about the Jackson campaign is the music," observes Kongshaug, who has been traveling with the candidate since January. "Sometimes I'm disappointed when the gospel music ends and Jackson begins." Still, Kongshaug quickly adds, having to sit through the same impassioned speech several times a day is better than his previous CBS assignment, answering phones for the Evening News...