February 21, 2008
Inventor Leaves Billions to Charity
James LeVoy Sorenson, an inventor and investor who died last month, has bequeathed most of his fortune — about $4.5-billion, according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the wealthiest Americans — to his family foundation. That means the foundation, whose largest grants have gone primarily to medical causes, is likely to become one of the 20 wealthiest grant makers in the United States.
Mr. Sorenson, who was 86 when he died of cancer, was chairman of
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