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Galya has had other interesting but troublesome relationships. Last June 18, a friend of hers, Gustav F. Ingwerson, a Denver inventor, painter and plastics designer, died of potassium cyanide poisoning. Ingwerson's will left less to his family than expected. He did bequeath small amounts of stock and an assortment of personal possessions-including a cuckoo clock, a color TV and a dinosaur bone-to Galya and her two children. Galya is now charged by Denver police with forging that will. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mysteries: Tom Cat and the Colonel | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...that time bequeath you my diseases...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...buildings are the familiar second-rate parodies of the Panthcon and, as Greenough pointed out over a hundred years ago, there is nothing sillier than America trying to be Corinthian. Perhaps every President for the last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted to bequeath some mark of concrete and marble, some monument to belie his own colossal incomprehension and inability to deal with the complexity of American life. And so he employed the resident artistic hacks to bludgeon the reluctant marble into the unlikely shapes that grace the Mall...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: On the March Washington Blues | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

...enables a person, without the consent of next of kin, to bequeath parts or the whole of his body for research and transplant use. It represents three years of legislative work by the surgeons. It represents, too, a major breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant patients...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and B.U. Doctors Implement Transplant Law | 2/5/1968 | See Source »

...Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming Widow your own Gilt Skeleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Year of the Mechanical Rabbit | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

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