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...Angelica's Bequest. Half of the original 14 who showed at Florence were soldiers. Using portable easels and small canvases, they painted things that academicians shuddered at-prostitutes, troop maneuvers and barefoot peasantry. Then they turned to the subject matter that early French impressionism grew fat upon: landscapes populated by rocks and sheep, woodsmen warming in a shack, wheat harvests, the faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American Federation...
...year, much of it going into his collection of jewels and rare stamps and coins. When Sylvia, sole beneficiary under Ned's will, died with no close relatives in 1951, she bequeathed most of her fortune to schools, hospitals and churches-with a $35,000 bequest for the bookkeeper who had served the Greens for 36 years at a top salary of $75 a week...
...esteem and affection" and a mere $25,000 were the total bequest to Socialite Actress Dina Merrill, 37, from the estimated $3,800,000 estate of her father, Edward F. Hutton, founder of Wall Street's E. F. Hutton & Co. brokerage concern. Considering his daughter "amply provided for" (Dina's husband is Colgate Heir Stanley M. Rumbough, her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Post May, heiress to the Post Toasties millions), the stockbroker left the greater share of his fortune to Third Wife Dorothy Dear Hutton, the remainder to be divided between Stepdaughter Joan Metzger Patterson and the three Rumbough...
...Jasper McLevy, 84, a Socialist with a banker's respect for a dollar, proved as frugal with his own funds as he had been with those of his city. He left an estate of $125,000, most of which goes to his wife and family, with one $600 bequest set aside to establish an appropriate annual essay prize for high school seniors. Subject: "How to Set Up an Annual Budget for the City of Bridgeport...
...Porter left the University a direct bequest of slightly over $1 million. She asked for several specific expenditures, concerned in large part with libraries and museums; and she said that all remaining funds should be used to endow the new humanities-social sciences chair. A spokesman for the University's financial offices said yesterday that between $500,000 and $600,000 would be available for this purpose...