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...grants established a new chair of radiological research at the Medical School, which has been filled by Henry I. Kohn, professor of Radiology. The new chair, known as the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller-American Cancer Society Professorship of Radiology, is one of 17 full-time research posts endowed by the Society throughout the country. Three of these research professorships are now at Harvard...
...case was appealed to Governor Alvan T. Fuller, who knew well that the decision of any one man would be unlikely to satisfy the extreme partisans of either side. He determined to appoint an advisory committee and immediately decided on A. Lawrence Lowell for one member. Lowell recommended the president of M.I.T., Samuel W. Stratton, for a second member, and retired Judge Robert Grant was eventually named to round out the group...
...Academie accepts no more than 30 girls a year. Members of the current crop include Henry Ford's daughter Anne (whose sister Charlotte graduated with the premiere class in 1961), Melinda Fuller, granddaughter of onetime Massachusetts Governor Alvan Fuller, and Genevieve du Pont of the Delaware dynasty. Tuition for the eight-month course is $2,800, covers the girls' social outings to theaters, balls, concerts and weekend house parties (escorted vacation cruises to Greece or Egypt are optional). Students do not live in dormitories, but (at an additional cost of close to $2.000) are placed with families...
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...