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...personal effects. No bequests were made to friends or servants. Bulk of the estate, estimated at $10,000,000 after taxes, was left in trust to Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of the late Bessie Rockefeller Strong, oldest of Rockefeller's five children, and Prof. Charles Augustus Strong, now living in Fiesole, Italy. She is the wife of Marquis George de Cuevas, Spanish nobleman. They have two children. Elizabeth and John. Rockefeller's will explained that he had provided for his other children and grandchildren during his lifetime. First hearing the news, the de Cuevases said, "There...
Last week the world's most celebrated aviator delivered himself on the subject which most aviators consider the world's greatest joke. Wrote Charles Augustus Lindbergh in a letter which was read aloud by Clark University's President Wallace Walter Atwood at graduation ceremonies in Worcester, Mass.: "Clark University is taking part in a project which may have far-reaching effects on the future of civilization. For many years a member of the staff, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, has been experimenting with rockets...
Michael Gregor, who built the first private Russian airplane, a modified Bleriot, in 1910 and sold it to Major Seversky's father. A War flyer, Gregor arrived in the U. S. in 1921, designed several planes including the Bird in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh taught his wife to fly. Gregor had a hand in the design of the Seversky amphibian, is currently freelancing...
...represented at all in the 1937 Academy is Britain's greatest R. A., bearded, talented Augustus John. A steady contributor and a potent moneymaker for many years, Artist John has been too sick the past year to do any painting at all. In his honor Sculptor Barney Scale submitted a portrait bust whose bearded dignity was little spoiled by the fact that a prankster's lighted cigaret left in the mouth burned a spot that made Artist John look as though he were suffering from a virulent cold sore...
...Metropolitan last week, critics and gallery-goers had a chance to inspect The Hunt together with the 16 other contemporary U. S. paintings acquired this year with the Hearn funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin...