PHILANTHROPIST IRA D. WALLACH DIES AT NINETY-SEVEN

The New York Times reports that Ira D. Wallach, a New York philanthropist who for many years was the chief executive of Central National-Gottesman Inc., the world’s largest private marketer of pulp, paper, and newsprint, died on Saturday at the White Plains Hospital Center. He was ninety-seven and lived in Scarsdale. With his wife, the former Miriam Gottesman, he created a charitable foundation whose beneficiaries included the New York Public Library, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through the Miriam G. and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, gifts established an art gallery and a professorship at Columbia and an orientation hall at the American Museum of Natural History, and paid for improvements at many other institutions.