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- <text id=91TT2092>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: American Notes:Philanthropy
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- PHILANTHROPY
- A Gift from the GoodFellas
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Gambino crime family is not usually known for good works.
- Its deeds are more likely to be chronicled in FBI reports about
- the Mob. There is one place, however, where the surname Gambino
- gets respect: Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park,
- N.Y., which has received a $2 million gift from Thomas and
- Joseph Gambino in memory of their late father Carlo. The money
- is funding a pediatric bone-marrow-transplant unit, the only
- such facility in the state. When it opens, it will bear the
- Gambino name.
- </p>
- <p> That could pose an image problem for the hospital. After
- all, Carlo Gambino was the last of the old-style Godfathers,
- and his two sons were indicted for racketeering last year. In
- accepting the donation, however, Schneider officials take a
- practical view. "Our mission," says a spokeswoman, "is to save
- lives." The father of a future patient puts the issue more
- starkly: "I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I have
- a daughter who will die if she doesn't get a transplant."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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