Word: tamblyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such gatherings produce the miraculous results attained by Manhattan's Tamblyn & Brown in 1926. At the opening dinner of a campaign to raise $100,000 for the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission in New York, a wealthy coal dealer picked up his pamphlet entitled: The Man Nobody Knows. Profoundly moved by it, he leaned over and whispered to the chairman, who blanched, then bounced to his feet to quaver that the quota was achieved and the drive over...
...scholarly studies are regarded as textbooks for the business. Smaller firms are Ward, Wells & Dreshman, and Tamblyn & Brown (out of fund-raising and into public relations exclusively for the duration). Together these Manhattan firms have raised over $2,000,000,000 for nonprofit causes. They have had to be patient, elusive and resourceful, with the corporate manners of an undertaker and the understanding of a Freud. Once, when Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams College, they happened to print a part of the College song, The Mountains, in a pamphlet. Checks fluttered in. When Horace Dutton...
Another virtue is taste. Chorus-girl cheesecake is highly damaging to fund-raising publicity. The usual press-agent stunts have to be carefully curried. When Washington's National Cathedral arranged to have the remains of Admiral Dewey dug up and placed under its nave, a freshman employe of Tamblyn & Brown was so impressed that he immediately got off an office memorandum suggesting that the firm keep its eye on ex-President William Howard Taft (then alive) for its client, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...them. It owes its cubic capacity to one austere little man-Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with a cathedral-building itch, scratched up some $15,000,000, transformed his Romanesque stub into a soaring Gothic pile. Bishop Manning will be remembered as a cathedral builder. He may also be remembered as a bishop who had little luck with his deans...