I don't have sources, etc., so I won't try to edit the article, but I think Mr. Delacorte was notable for financing many public fountains in New York. Also, there is a story (possibly untrue) that when asked in the 1960s why he was spending such an extraordinary amount of money to install a gigantic ornamental water jet in the East River (or on Roosevelt Island), instead of using the money to, say, fight poverty, his reply was "poor people are poor because they're lazy or stupid." Charming.
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