Donald Jonas, Co-Founder of Lechters Housewares Chain, Funded Nursing Education

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Obituary: Donald Jonas, who raised millions from his art collection to fund philanthropy, said, 'If you die rich, you die poor really.'

Donald Jonas was a newly arrived freshman at the University of Richmond in Virginia when his father died of a heart attack at a women’s apparel store the family owned in Manhattan.

The younger Mr. Jonas dropped out of college and returned home to work in the family retailing business. He helped run a mail-order operation offering such items as panties labeled for each day of the week. In the early 1950s, he started his own company to sell women’s apparel in spaces leased inside department stores and in his own Barbara Lynn shops, named after his wife.

 

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Not if you have kids

Geneticists are *so close* to breeding tiny, flea-size dromedary camels capable of passing through the eye of a needle... once that happens, all the rich people stop going to Hell, per Jesus. It wasn't easy, it has taken over 2,000 years and untold billions in R&D, but you did it

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