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Married. Virginia Cocalis, 24, and George McMillan, 25; in St. Nicholas' Church, Newark, N. J. Under the terms of Theatre Owner Soteros D. Cocalis' will, Daughter Virginia forfeited a $25,000 bequest by wedding a man not "born into the Greek Orthodox faith." Born a Baptist, McMillan joined the Greek church, but it was too late...
Representing a life's work, a bequest of 250,000 beetles collected by the late Dr. Henry C. Fall of Tyngsboro was recently received at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...fellowships were established in 1909 by the bequest of Mrs. Amey Richmond Sheldon, in memory of her husband, who was a member of the Class of 1842. The stipends of the fellowships total $14,725, and all but one will be for study in this country. Two of them have been awarded for work this summer, while the remaining 11 will be for the academic year beginning in the fall...
...building cost $275,000. The Daily itself contributed $25,000, the rest came from a $350,000 bequest (now grown to $660,000) from late, great Minnesotan William James Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune...
...winners of these annual prizes are given the choice of any book, specially bound and bearing the Harvard seal and the coat of arms of Edward Hopkins, London merchant who came to Massachusetts in 1637 and made the bequest through which the prizes were established...