American-born Sir Louis Sterling marked his 75th birthday yesterday by donating 200,000 pounds ($560,000) to charity. Sir Louis is president of the British Technion Society, which raises funds for the Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa.
Born of Jewish immigrant parents on New York’s Lower East Side, Sir Louis went to Britain in 1903 to sell phonographs, and remained to become head of a recording company which dominated the entire European phonograph and radio field. A member of the famous Grand Boys Association of New York, Sir Louis was knighted in 1937.
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