Word: alvan
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From the estate of former Massachusetts Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller-which last spring left a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds to Washington's National Gallery of Art-came nine paintings worth $500,000 to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, including two Renoirs, a Monet, two Romneys and Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I's daughter, Princess Mary (just prior to her 1641 marriage to Prince William of Orange at age nine...
Newly hung in Washington's National Gallery of Art were a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds, left to the museum by a onetime Boston auto dealer who died in 1958: Alvan Tufts Fuller, better known as the Massachusetts governor who refused to stay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Also included in the Fuller estate: $80,646.94 in paychecks that he collected during his 13 years in public office and decided never to cash...
...chair, to be known as the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller-American Cancer Society Professorship of Radiology, will be created by a gift to the society from the Fuller Foundation. It will be the first time a publicly supported charitable organization has endowed a professorship on any American medical faculty...