Education: Rebuilding Boys Town

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Counters Hupp in defense: "Today there is almost no kid available who's a true orphan. The boys at Boys Town either ran away from home or got kicked out. They have more deep-seated problems than needing only a place to sleep and something to eat. This is why we're going to make some big changes."

Boys Town has been making big changes so fast that expenditures now outrun donations. So the twice-yearly mail solicitations that had been suspended after disclosure of the huge endowment have been reinstated. "Boys Town is recovering the sense of mission lost when Father Flanagan died," says Warren Buffett, owner of the Sun papers.

"After all, it's much easier to accumulate wealth than it is to spend it wisely."