Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan offices of the Vincent Astor Foundation, the visitor from Washington had some difficulty drafting his personal check for $2,000,000: "I didn't know how the hell to add zeroes after the two million, so I just wrote 'Two million dollars' and went squiggle-squiggle with the pen." This, he explained as he handed foundation officers the check, was an earnest of his intent to pay $8,985,000 for the block of stock they had for sale. And so, with a squiggle-squiggle, Philip L. Graham, 45, president of the Washington Post and Times...
...Astor Foundation had been looking for someone like Graham since the 1959 death of Philanthropist Vincent Astor, when Astor's 179,700 shares, amounting to a 59% controlling interest in Newsweek, passed to the trust. Eager to sell Newsweek, the foundation promptly, though privately, began hunting a buyer. Among the handful of serious bidders was Newsweek Board Chairman Malcolm Muir, 75, who hoped to enlarge his family's 13% toe hold on the magazine with the Astor shares. But Graham's offer of $50 a share (which was about 24 times the magazine's earnings...
Balloting for the Horatio Alger awards rounds the final turn and enters the home stretch next week. The deadline for return of ballots circulated by the Horatio Alger Awards Committee of the American Schools and Colleges Association (a non-profit corporation--Norman Vincent Peale, national chairman) is Friday, March...
...heaven's sake," preached Manhattan Minister Norman Vincent Peale, "let's get Christian positions up to a Christian level." So saying. Peale faulted San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for a bit of negative thinking: opposition to racism on grounds that it will lose the U.S. the support of uncommitted nations. "I am fed up with hearing preachers say that we must practice non-discrimination because of its effect upon the so-called colored peoples of the world." said Peale. "If discrimination were right, we should support it no matter what the colored people think...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) Art Carney stars in "O'Halloran's Luck," a musical adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's story about an Irish immigrant who becomes a U.S. railroad tycoon with the assistance of a displaced leprechaun. Color...