Word: luckman
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...turning Jamison's dream into reality fell to the company's executive director, Sharon Luckman, who had to find $300,000 to cover the cost of the trip. Initial overtures to potential American underwriters got nowhere. Nor were funds forthcoming in South Africa, because, says Luckman, it is deemed "politically incorrect to raise money for foreigners to come here when so little was going to local arts groups." The project was about to be abandoned when the J.P. Morgan Bank, based in New York City, agreed to sponsor the tour to showcase its start-up this year of a Johannesburg...