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Harvard, it now appears, may have a hand in administering a multimillion-dollar bequest from the late playwright Tennessee Williams. But dealing in seven-figure donations is a familiar practice for the administrators running the University's on-going $350 million fund-drive...
...fund is a bequest from the late Alice Cunningham Lace...
...with a bespectacled attorney reading a last will and testament. Incongruously present are the not so dear departed, hugely enjoying themselves as the lawyer tells the grieving heirs: "To Ronald Reagan we leave a recession, inflation at 12.4% and rising, gas prices sky high." Chortling merrily at the dubious bequest are-could it be? - Democrats Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill...
...undertaking that the curators had always regarded as impossible, if not downright laughable. The nation's attic was as badly organized as the average homeowner's; junk and jewels had been piling up helter-skelter since 1846, when Congress founded the Smithsonian with a $500,000 bequest from James Smithson, an Englishman who left his estate to establish a national museum...
...Rockefeller was a voracious collector of primitive art as such, and almost everything he owned-the 3,500 or so objects that were the nucleus of his Museum of Primitive Art, along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number of pre-Columbian objects from the Alice Bache bequest...