Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city tirelessly, ebulliently, paying calls at receptions and parties that seemed to be glowing everywhere, like so many hearthsides on a winter's day. There was a good deal of social handicapping about which ones were the really chic occasions (among the leaders: a joint reception given by Philanthropist Mary Lasker and Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, parties thrown by Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta...
Died. Robert Allerton, 91, philanthropist and horticulturist, heir to a Chicago stockyards fortune who gave $ 1,500,000 to the Chicago Art Institute and another $1,000,000 to Honolulu's Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii...
...accustomed to being called a philanderer, but when he was labeled a philanthropist, Richard Burton reacted as if it were a dirty word. The ruckus started when Bertrand Russell's "Peace Foundation" announced that Burton was giving it all his British earnings. Not so, cried Richard. He had merely donated a few pounds and did not agree with Lord Bertie's anti-American jeremiads. In fact, deadpanned the actor, he gives most of his loose pence to the Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris...
Died. Eddie Cantor, 72, comedian, philanthropist, author of three autobiographies, whose purse-mouthed, popeyed, hand-clapping routines delighted three generations of Americans; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born Izzy Iskowitz on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Cantor sang, danced and joked his way to stardom on Broadway (Banjo Eyes) and in Hollywood (Kid Boots), pioneered live comedy on radio and TV, set the U.S. humming such ditties as Ida and Oh How She Can Yicky Yacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Stricken with heart trouble in 1952, grieved by the death of his wife and eldest daughter...
...translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family to the memory of Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller...