Who's Who Among the Big Givers

TRYING to track who gives what to whom is like determining the number of real blondes in the U.S. If the Republicans have their way, for example, nobody will ever know where the more than $10 million came from that Maurice Stans collected before the disclosure law took effect on April 7. Nearly every big giver of both parties routinely shards his gifts into $3,000-and-under bits and scatters them among dozens of committees. Against all odds, the nonprofit Citizens' Research Foundation, headed by Herbert E. Alexander, a political scientist, attempts an accounting each election year, based on voluntary disclosures made by candidates and statements filed. Such a system cannot ferret out those determined to conceal their gifts, but it does at least give an indication of what the honest men are up to. Herewith a necessarily incomplete gallery of top donors in this campaign through Aug. 31, prepared by TIME from the C.R.F.'s data:

WALTER T. DUNCAN, 45, a Texas real estate developer with an aversion to publicity and photographers. Gifts: Hubert Humphrey, $300,000; Nixon, $257,000. "McGovern goes too far," said Duncan in explaining his post-primary Republican switch.

W. CLEMENT STONE, 70, Winnetka, Ill., chairman and chief executive officer of Combined Insurance Co. of America (assets: $319,725,000). Gifts: Nixon, $25,000; Republican National Committee, $11,000. Stone, who was Nixon's biggest financial backer in 1968, says that he has given a total of $500,000 to Nixon so far this year, the bulk of it before the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 went into effect in April.

RAY A. KROC, 70, Chicago, chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook, Ill. Gifts: Nixon, $255,000.

MAX PALEVSKY, 48, Los Angeles, founder of Scientific Data Systems, largest single stockholder in Xerox, interests in films (Marjoe) and publishing, chairman of Straight Arrow Publishers (Rolling Stone). Gifts: McGovern, $126,852; McCloskey, $9,825. Loans: McGovern, $230,000.

DR. ALEJANDRO C. ZAFFARONI, 48, president of Alza Corp., a Palo Alto, Calif., pharmaceutical firm. Gifts: McGovern, $226,000; McCloskey, $11,000. Zaffaroni, a developer of contraceptives and a drug researcher, is also a Uruguayan citizen and thus will not be able to vote in the presidential election.

STEWART RAWLINGS MOTT, 34, New York City philanthropist, son of the General Motors pioneer and major stockholder Charles Stewart Mott. Gifts: McGovern, $212,361; Lindsay, $5,000; McCloskey, $5,500. Loans: McGovern, $377,500.

FOSTER G. MCGAW, 75, Evanston, Ill., honorary chairman and founder of American Hospital Supply Corp. Gifts: Nixon, $196,298, and $3,000 to a Republican Party committee.

MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH IRWIN MILLER, Miller, 63, is chairman of Cummins Engine Co., Columbus, Ind. Gifts: Lindsay, $150,000; McCloskey, $18,500.

JOSEPH M. SEGEL, 41, Merion, Pa., president of the Franklin Mint, Inc., a manufacturer of commemorative coins and medals. Gifts: Nixon, $ 114,000.

EVAN P. HELFAER, 74, Milwaukee, major stockholder in Colgate-Palmolive Co. Gifts: Nixon, $110,261.

DWAYNE O. ANDREAS, 54, Miami Beach, chairman of First Interoceanic Corp., chairman of the executive committee of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (flour and soybean products). Gifts: Humphrey, $75,000; Nixon, $25,000. His money earmarked for the Nixon campaign was later found by the FBI in the bank account of one of the original Watergate Five.

ANTHONY T. ROSSI, 71, Bradenton, Fla., chairman and president of Tropicana Products Inc. Gifts: Nixon, $100,000.

HENRY L. KIMELMAN, 51, chairman of the West Indies Corp. and various other corporations in the Virgin Islands, and McGovern's national finance chairman. Gifts: McGovern, $76,740. Loans: McGovern, $290,000.

MARTIN PERETZ, 32, an assistant professor of social studies at Harvard whose wife has holdings in the Singer Company. Gifts: McGovern, $76,000. Loans: McGovern, $114,000.

MR. AND MRS. MILES L. RUBIN. Rubin. 42, is a Los Angeles manufacturer and industrialist. Gifts: McGovern, $58, 300; Muskie, $2,000; McCloskey, $4,600. He has also loaned McGovern $225,000.

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