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...three readings of the banns-Anne was three months pregnant. By Elizabethan standards, Anne's pregnancy was no great scandal, but her age -an antique 26 or so to Will's 18-was. The sole clue as to how they got on together is a rather ambiguous bequest in Shakespeare's will: "Item, I give unto my wife my second-best bed with the furniture." Since Will spent most of his mature years in London, leaving Anne and their children behind in Stratford, it might be argued that she had always had the second-best...
...gross estate. Ann Woodward, 43, and her two sons, William III, 15, and James, 11, each get the income from a third of the residuary estate. Ann, who has not remarried and largely abstains from the Manhattan social whirl these days, also got a cash bequest...
...chief outside-work interest is the farm, where he likes to wander on weekends, carrying a notebook with the vital statistics of his 415 Guernseys and calling them by name?"Emma, Brenda, Belle, Charming." Gray is a millionaire; besides his $160,000 annual salary, he has his father's bequest of 55,000 shares of Reynolds stock (then worth about $3,000,000), now owns a total of 90,000 shares, worth...
President Pusey's announcement Monday that the Program for Harvard College had passed its goal of $82.5 million does not mark the end of the Program, but rather a memorable and significant day in it. Large gifts from Harold S. Vanderbilt '07 and Lamont duPont Copeland '27, and a bequest from Walter W. Naumburg '89 have assured the College of the funds needed to carry out the Program, and that achievement is to be welcomed by undergraduates and alumni. The task, however, has just begun, for the real job is spending--spending to strengthen and build the College, to broaden...
...addition to Vanderbilt's, two other last-minute seven-figure gifts were forthcoming from wealthy alumni. The donors were Walter W. Naumburg '89, whose bequest to the Program totaled $2 million, and Lamont duPont Copeland '27, an earlier contributor, who gave an additional $1 million...