SHORT TAKES : Actor Gives $250,000 to Needy
<i> From Times Staff and Wire Service Reports</i>
NEW YORK —
Actor Paul Newman this week made one of the largest donations ever received by the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund--$200,000--and then promptly decided it was not enough and pledged another $50,000.
The contributions came from Newman’s Own Inc., the Westport, Conn., food company founded by Newman and author and neighbor A. E. Hotchner that sells popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and lemonade.
“For 30 years I’ve lived in New York, and I feel I have an obligation to the well-being of the people who live there with me, to their quality of life,” Newman said in a statement.
