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...most beneficent Harvard contributors of his time, Gordon (along with other well-to-do alumni) is again gearing up to catalyze the University's most ambitious fund drive to date, an effort slated to rake in $250 million by mid-1984. Although Gordon's check will probably surpass many others, it pales in comparison to his other contribution: his influence on other wealthy Harvard alumni, corporations, and foundations. Now that inflation has become the scapegoat for almost every ill, the University is calling on men like Gordon to persuade the nation that Harvard University, the educational institution with the largest...
...most beneficent Harvard contributors of his time, Gordon (along with other well-to-do alumni) is again gearing up to catalyze the University's most ambitious fund drive to date, an effort slated to rake in $250 million by mid-1984. Although Gordon's check will probably surpass many others, it pales in comparison to his other contribution: his influence on other wealthy Harvard alumni, corporations, and foundations. Now that inflation has become the scapegoat for almost every ill, the University is calling on men like Gordon to persuade the nation that Harvard University, the educational institution with the largest...
...most beneficent Harvard contributors of his time, Gordon (along with other well-to-do alumni) is again gearing up to catalyze the University's most ambitious fund drive to date, an effort slated to rake in $250 million by mid-1984. Although Gordon's check will probably surpass many others, it pales in comparison to his other contribution: his influence on other wealthy Harvard alumni, corporations, and foundations. Now that inflation has become the scapegoat for almost every ill, the University is calling on men like Gordon to persuade the nation that Harvard University, the educational institution with the largest...
...Subsequently he did much of his most successful work on Merrick productions (Carnival!, I Do, I Do) and in 1964 gave the producer his biggest hit, Hello, Dolly!, one of the most spectacular theatrical bonanzas of all time. In return, Merrick's patronage gave Champion the chance to surpass his achievements as a dancer and a film director...
...illness of the Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came:/ 'He is no better. He is much the same.' " Occasional verse itself, poetry on demand, almost always leads to things like that. It would be difficult for any poet, laureate or not, to surpass the Englishman Samuel Carter's "Paean" to the London sewer system: "Magnificent, too, is the system of drains,/ Exceeding the far-spoken wonders of old/ . . . Well did the ancient proverb lay down this important text/ That cleanliness for human weal to godliness is next...