GIVE & TAKE

Hefner Gift to U. of Illinois Will Endow Journalism Fellowships

Hugh M. Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine, is used to defending journalistic freedom. He's now giving $500,000 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to help others learn to do the same.

The gift from the 1949 Illinois graduate -- who majored in psychology and double-minored in creative writing and art -- will endow fellowships to...

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