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Jan 14, 2004

"Giving anonymously is as hard as taking film in and never seeing the photos." --Dave Davidson

Billion Dollar Secret

He used to fly coach, buy clothes off the rack, had a plastic bag for briefcase, owned drugstore reading classes and wore a $15 plastic watch. And he secretly transferred all the shares of his company to a top-secret foundation in Bermuda that was giving to the world ... anonymously. When the cashier's check cleared, there were no black-tie galas, no self-effacing speeches. A decade later, in 1997, the company -- Duty Free Shoppers -- was sold and Charles Feeney's secret was out. The foundation was worth $1.6 billion dollars!