K. Bernard Weissman, a Jewish financier whose immigrant father ran a small candy store on New York’s lower Fast Side, donated $1,500,000 to New York University for the construction of a new building for the institution’s School of Dentistry, the university announced here last night. The building, to be erected not far from Mr. Weissman’s birth place on Forsyth Street, will bear the name of the donor.
Mr. Weissman helped support his family when he was 10 years old by teaching English to East Side immigrants, by working in a tailor shop and, later, by teaching piano. He amassed his fortune by financing agriculture in various foreign countries.
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