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Charitable Interpretation?
On a visit to New York, Harpo Marx was bombarded by requests from various charit...
Basket Case
Mark Twain once attended a meeting at which one of the speakers was raising mone...
Faith Hope & Charity
Fulton Sheen once spoke at an inter-faith rally in Baltimore. Having been welcom...
Little Flower
"One bitter cold day at the police court they brought a trembling old man before...
Arthur Griffiths: Born Sent...
"Arthur Griffiths, Manchester newspaperman and born sentimentalist, with several...
Robert Mitchum: Collection Cup
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the delicate Loretta Young and the rough-and-tumble Robe...
Diva's Playground
In a bid to improve her image as a self-centered diva one year, Diana Ross held ...
Elton John: SA What?
In November 2000, Elton John announced plans to sell a few articles of ...
Beggar's Banquet?
Tristan Bernard, generous to a fault, could never resist the entreaties of a beg...
Mother Teresa: Missionary o...
Mother Teresa found her work with the Missionaries of Charity (which she founded...
Poor Excuse For Conversation?
In the last years of his life, Schopenhauer lived in Frankfurt, where he often d...
Greedy Greeley
Horace Greeley (the founder of The New York Tribune) was once asked for a...
Carnegie Endowment (long)
Andrew Carnegie was a "limousine liberal" who firmly believed that the moneyed c...
Mime
"I'm walking to work up Sixth Avenue," David Letterman once recalled, "and it's ...
Curio$ity
Jack Benny once graciously refused to accept payment for a charity performance. ...
Moscow Roscoe (long)
"Looking around for a suitable way of serving the community, Ross Perot decided ...
Dinner with Hurley
In October 2003, comedian Denis Leary took part in a charity auction at New York...
ChEE Pass?
Isabella Gardner, a native New Yorker, was once called upon by a grande dame of ...
John Phillips: Ego Pop
In 1967, John Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas) helped with the organization...
Can't Take It With You
One of Louis B. Mayer's colleagues once attempted to persuade the studio chief t...
Act of Charity
One day at the turn of the millennium, Emmet Smith was amused to learn that he w...
Beggars' Chorus
Johann Sebastian Bach once encountered a group of beggars whining. Intrigued by ...
David Geffen & Michael Ovitz
"[Legendary record producer] David Geffen has elevated revenge to an art form, e...
Old Ruse
"Once after a performance in Boston an elderly lady met me at the
stage door," ...
Carnegie Endowment
Over the course of his life, Andrew Carnegie endowed 2,811 libraries and many ch...
Philanthropist
One day Lord Norbury was asked to contribute to a fund for the funeral an impove...
Baliff's Funeral
Alexandre Dumas was once asked to make a contribution to cover the costs of a ce...
Bill Gates: Charity Case
One day in 2003, Microsoft chief Bill Gates met with Tom Brokaw at a humble Sout...
Mick Jagger: Old Git
"Despite a massive publicity massage that jammed his dimpled prune into every me...
Shane Richie: £1.10p
In March 2004, Shane Richie (famed for his role as Alfie Moon on "EastEnders") d...
Thomas Jane: Hollywood Busker
While working as a busker on Hollywood Boulevard, Thomas Jane found a sure-fire ...
Tom Arnold: Sweet Charity
Tom Arnold and Miami Dolphins linebacker Brian Cox once made a bet for charity: ...
BTM?
Among San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's loopier ideas? He once proposed a plan ...
Wilde Notion
"In accordance with his ideas on the dignity of labor [noted art critic John] Ru...
Big Money?
In November 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $100 million c...
Good Deeds
Shortly after the appearance of Mr. Deeds (in which he played Longfellow ...
Warm Response?
One day during his chairmanship of the Ford Foundation (in the 1950s), Robert Hu...
Generous Jose
In 2003, Brazilian MP Jose Carlos Martinez gave Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu an ex...
Rabelais' Will
Francios Rabelais is said to have made the following will: "I owe much. I posses...
10,000 Maniac?
Mir Bahboob Ali Khan died the richest prince in India in 1911 - having never wor...
Duchovny's Bottom (long)
One evening in May 2001, David Duchovny made a memorable appearance on "The Toni...
Beverly Hills Charity
Legendary record producer David Geffen once set up a charitable foundation. Iron...
Hunger Project
In the 1970s, John Denver joined a team led by EST founder Werner Erhard to laun...
Jerry's Kid
One day Jerry Lewis was asked by his daughter to sign several forms. The next da...
Elfbrain
Jenna Elfman, a Los Angeles-born charter member of the Church of Scientology, on...
savekaryn.com
In July 2002, New York's Karyn Bosnak launched a "Save Karyn" website, and shame...
Salut d'Amour
Before a concert one evening, Fred Gaisberg accompanied Sir Edward Elgar to the ...
Billy Connolly: The Whole B...
"He's not censoring anything," Monty Python's Eric Idle once remarked of fellow ...
Julio Franco: Bad Behavior
Former Cleveland Indians manager Pat Corrales found a novel way to handle young ...
Model Stranger
While vacationing in Dublin, Ireland, Henry Ford was asked to contribute to a co...
Ten Dollar Treatment
"Many patients came to Dr. Trudeau with insufficient funds. 'Doctor,' said one o...
Generous Interpretation?
Although he was the highest paid star of the 1960's, Steve McQueen had a reputat...
Ingratitude
While dining at a small inn one day, Cosimo de Medici took pity on a peasant eat...
Contribution Plate
In 1807, Czar Alexander was forced by Napoleon to accept the humiliating Treaty ...
Food Drive
"At the Harvest Festival in church the area behind the pulpit was piled high wit...
Hands-On Bra
In April 2003, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston designed several bras to raise mon...
Richard Branson: Rebel Bill...
Richard Branson was once asked why contestants on his reality TV show "The Rebel...
Collectible Art
While living in Buenos Aires in 2003, Mathijs de Bruijne was horrified by the si...
Fountain of Kindness
Born into the Coutts banking family, Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (the richest...
Celine Dion & Ronald McDona...
Celine Dion once slipped behind the counter at a Florida McDonald's to serve hea...
Beggar's Opera?
Mozart was once accosted by a beggar claiming to be a distant relative. Though h...
Charity Auction
In August 2002, Australian MP Barry Haase (a Federal Liberal Member for Kalgoorl...
Charity Begins at Home
Dolly Parton was once asked whether she believed in giving money to homeless peo...
Wacky Sutherland
"To celebrate the end of their second season, the cast and crew of the hit FOX s...
Halle Berry: Designer Duds
After their divorce, Halle Berry asked ex-husband Eric Benet to collect his clot...
Brian Wilson: Diamond Pin
In February 2005, former Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson wore a $2.5 million do...
Handout
"Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement in New York, was fined $25...
Swiftly Speaking
Jonathan Swift, as dean of St. Patrick's, was once called upon to deliver a char...
Shopping Spree
J. P. Morgan was once asked to donate money for new buildings at an Ivy League m...
Blaine Generosity (long)
"One afternoon, [famed magician David Blaine] walks me through the Village in a ...
Dinner Guest
French Guess jeans model and covergirl Laetitia Casta once invited an unlikely g...
Robin Hood
After appearing as King Richard in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, Sean Co...
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