The cigarette maker was becoming by far the largest corporate benefactor of the arts in the US throughout the latter half of the 20th century, says Dr Alan Blum, the director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco & Society at the Univeristy of Alabama, who has built an archive of materials documenting the industrys long support for the arts, including catalogues from more than 200 exhibitions dating from 1957
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Stock and cash dribbled in from the West Coast (almost six hundred shares of Standard Oil of California stock were unaccountably missing but were duplicated after the Library Association put up a bond), and when all the assets were finally audited, at the end of 1976, the Brooks Fund realized a grand total of two hundred and ten thousand dollars, after payment of twelve thousand dollars to the Barones, fifty-five thousand dollars for attorneys fees incurred in the legal wrangling, and thirty-one thousand dollars for court costs
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