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St. John's College Lands Big Gift From Music Mogul

Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of Atlantic Records, never gave a major gift to his alma mater, St. John's College, during his life. That fact did not stop the college from keeping up a relationship with the 1944 graduate, and after Ertegun died unexpectedly,...

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