Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June to meet the $82,500,000 goal of its Program for Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956), came the largest gift so far from an individual donor: $2,000,000 for scholarships. The anonymous giver, who went through Harvard on a scholarship, regards the huge sum, said President Nathan M. Pusey, as "only partial payment" for his education. To other men of parts who once had scholarships, Pusey observed that the college needs more such partial payments...
What finally flushed Trumbo was a vote by the academy two days earlier to drop the anti-Communist rule as "unworkable and impractical.'' Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy...
PEACE AT LOEWS seems assured by purchase of 235,000 Loew's shares by a group led by Nathan Cummings, chairman of Consolidated Foods Corp. Cummings, a friend of management, strengthened Loew's President Joseph Vogel, threatened with a proxy fight by stockholders opposing his plan to sell Loew's theaters, build up M-G-M as a moviemaker...
...exam period ends, Dean Bundy announces that he is taking the suggestion of allowing typing on examinations under advisement. "What the Dean means to say," his secretary points out, "is No." The New York Times Fund for the Needy announces its donation to Nathan P., who is supporting a large family. Unfortuntely the allotment falls somewhat short of the requested $85.5 million...
...jubilantly to the message. Three hundred undergraduates, including the entire cast of Drumbeats and Song, which was caught during rehearsal, are converted. Paul Tillich stalks out of the meeting, saying that he is not grasped by ultimate concern. No one is quite sure of what he meant to say. Nathan P. sends the money back to the Times, commenting that he is sure there must have been a mistake...