Albert Delacorte, 90  Teacher led family's philanthropic efforts
August 25, 2004|By New York Times News Service.  Albert
Delacorte, an editor and teacher who helped guide his family's
philanthropic efforts, died Monday at his home in San Francisco.
He was 90.  The cause was prostate cancer complicated by
emphysema, said his daughter Erika Delacorte.  Mr. Delacorte was
a son of George Delacorte, who founded Dell Publishing and gave
millions to embellish New York City with fountains, statues,
theaters and schools bearing his name. He died in 1991.  The
younger Delacorte administered the trust that gave $4.3 million
to Columbia University in 1985 to establish the George Delacorte
Center for Magazine Journalism and endow a professorship.  Mr.
Delacorte graduated from Princeton in 1935. He worked until 1961
at Dell, editing the magazines Modern Screen and Modern Romances
and a line of pocket-size books.  He then earned a master's
degree in English from Teachers College at Columbia. He planned
to teach high school