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EVENT REPORT 05.29.09 11:00 AM

Library Foundation Gala Raises $540,000 Despite—or Due to—the Economy

The Library Foundation's dinner
Photo: Lee Salem Photography

The Library Foundation of Los Angeles used to hold its annual gala at the majestic 80-year-old Central Library downtown, where 250 supporters would dine amid the marble and murals. But the popular event eventually outgrew the space, so organizers moved it outside to nearby City National Plaza. That still left the benefit vulnerable to a quirk of Los Angeles geography: a downtown that can be difficult, if not impossible, for residents of the city’s populous Westside to negotiate during rush hour.

Last year, the foundation found a happy medium in the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, where it returned Wednesday for a gala honoring TV journalist and author Tom Brokaw; Veronique Peck, widow of Gregory and avid foundation supporter; literary agent Larry Kirschbaum, the former Time-Warner Book Group chairman and C.E.O.; and Philip Flynn, Union Bank's vice chairman and C.E.O. About 550 guests filled the ballroom, no mean feat on an evening when, as dinner co-chair John Cooke noted, the Lakers were battling the Nuggets in the playoffs and “a very popular president of the United States is six blocks away” at the Beverly Hilton for a Democratic National Committee fund-raiser. MORE >>

Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Tiffany, Tom Brokaw

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