Word: bequeath
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...Property. Under English law, which has filtered through the colonies to the states, a man's body is not his own property to "devise and bequeath." Nor is it technically the property of surviving kin, but since they are responsible for giving it decent burial, they have won the right to decide what shall not be done with a relative's body...
Courted ardently for his collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...
...graduate of Columbia University. Her son, L. Stockwell Jadwin, was an honor student and track-team captain at Princeton who died in an auto accident shortly after his graduation in 1928. Before her own death last fall in her lifetime Brooklyn house, Mrs. Jadwin had decided to bequeath her fortune to a university as a memorial to both. Last week Princeton President Robert F. Goheen was able to announce that Mrs. Jadwin chose Princeton rather than Columbia for that memorial: a no-strings gift of $27 million...
Despite the demands of his work, Reisner was able somehow to build, and bequeath to the University, his extensive mystery collection. Because his secretary asked that British and American troops in Egypt be allowed to read the books, Harvard did not receive Reisner's bequest until 1945. Although the story that it was expecting a shipment of soberminded treatises seems dubious, Widener's cataloguers were surprised to discover that about a fifth of the novels had been graded, much as term papers are graded by professors in Cambridge...
Unlike the glum testaments and boring memorabilia most men bequeath to the world, Ernest Hemingway left behind an invitation to laugh with him amid the scenes of his youth, where he was happier than he would ever be again. Almost, it seems like a last-minute appeal from a man who suddenly felt himself trapped in his own latter-day legend as "Papa...