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Seven "favorites" in a field of about 20 mothers who crossed the finishing line in the Toronto "Stork Derby" four months ago, sighed with relief last week to know that their baby racing had not been in vain. The Ontario Court of Appeals declared valid the $500,000 bequest of eccentric Charles Vance Millar for the Toronto mother bearing most children during the ten years ending October...
...Prize which was later grouped with it, has remained a recitative spectacle rather than a genuine sally in public speaking is not hard to find. In a day when oratory was fine art, and the limbs and outward flourishes of speech more highly rates than keen thinking, the original bequest provided for "a public exhibition in elocution." The speaker was "never to rehearse his own composition," but merely to learn by rote some famous passage and deliver it as best he could. The Lee Wade competition even went so far as to require everybody to learn the same piece, until...
This money, the Stuart Wyeth bequest, headed a group of sums received totaling to one and a half million dollars. Other sources were: the Carnegie Corporation of New York, $350,000; the Markel Foundation of New York, $25,000; Mrs. George H. Monks, $25,000; the Carr Fund, $113,400; and gifts...
Divided into two parts, the bequest to the College amounts to $150,000 for the Divinity School, $50,000 for students of public administration...
...affairs, Cardinal Dougherty typically interpreted the Church's attitude toward the cinema in his own way, declaring a complete boycott which, though no longer enforced, still stands. Austere as his personal life is, he has lived in two costly Philadelphia suburban mansions, indignantly parting with the first-a bequest-when he found it was mortgaged...