Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sunny, Generous & Peeved...
Never "peevish," always sunny and generous (like mischievous, young [37] TIME magazine, in fact), I did not refer to the admirable Arthur Miller as a "writer-cripple" [Jan. 18]. That is Miller's phrase, not mine; it appears in its proper context in a theater piece I wrote for the current Partisan Review...
...bureaucratic bungling, for which he conceived a lifelong, livid distaste. Engaged to be married, he found himself jobless. Shute corralled a few like-minded airmen and venture capitalists, rented half of a bus garage in York, and Airspeed Ltd. was born. By the time Shute resigned, with a generous settlement, in 1938, the firm had a payroll of more than 1,000 men and more than ?1,000,000 in orders...
Black is so generous with his 1,000 employees, whose personnel manager is onetime Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, that he gives them 10% of his profits as a Christmas bonus. But his big-scale generosity began in 1957, when his chief company auditor contracted Parkinson's disease, joining 1,500,000 other U.S. victims. Black promptly launched the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. He has given the foundation $250,000-just part of the total $1,000,000 that he had already given to medical causes before his outright gift to Columbia...
Vanderbilt's gift to the College followed close after his $1.4 million donation toward the new Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. A former President of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University, he has long been a generous donor to University projects...