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...Bequest of the week: $1,000,000 to Princeton, from a millionaire Clearfield,-Pa. coal dealer who never went to college. Only stipulation in the will: that the money be used for some purpose that will bear its donor's name, Abram K. Wright. ¶The Winter Haven, Fla. High School faculty decided not to let their students appear on the same stage with students from Jewett (Negro) High School for a Junior Chamber of Commerce speech contest. Subject for the contestants: "I speak for Democracy...
...Hugh F. McKean, with a normal enrollment of 600 students. The only visible clouds on Rollins' horizon: a $500,000 law suit brought by ex-President Wagner for damages; a $25,000 suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden, '97. Occupation at the time of his death: department store doorman and Christmas season Santa Claus. ¶ Course of the week: the University of New Hampshire's compulsory...
...week show that $2,838,000 was given to the University during April, May, and June. Of this sum, $1,755,000 was to be added to endowment with one donation amounting to $1,019,000. Given without restriction, the latter gift was an additional section of the 1946 bequest of Henry W. Putnam. The total received from his estate has now passed the $2,000,000 mark...
...week show that $2,838,000 was given to the University during April, May, and June. Of this sum, $1,755,000 was to be added to endowment with one donation amounting to $1,019,000. Given without restriction, the latter gift was an additional section of the 1946 bequest of Henry W. Putnam. The total received from his estate has now passed the $2,000,000 mark...
...years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...