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Some of that money, including a $255,000 bequest from Thomas Nelson Cromwell, is restricted to other purposes, so that officials estimated the fund still needs over $300,000 to meet its share of the centers expenses...
...very needy Divinity School--which has plans for a large-scale modernization program and no money with which to carry them out--will soon come in for an $11,287 bequest, under the terms of an unusual will filed Wednesday in Suffolk probate court. The Law School will also receive a portion of the estate...
This morning, or some Monday morning seen the Corporation will have to make its final decision whether or not to authorize the construction of a new Varsity Club on Mr. Auburn Street with $250,000 of the bequest left to the University by the late Allston Burr...
...most matters of art, London's progressive Tate Gallery and the conservative Royal Academy happily stick to their separate tracks. One subject on which both have been meeting head-on for some 50 years: how to spend the proceeds of the ?105,000 bequest left by 19th Century Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey (TIME, Jan. 10, 1949 et seq.). So long as the Royal Academy made all the selections, the progressives howled-and in recent years outspoken Tate Director John Rothenstein had been chuting most of the Chantrey purchases straight to the cellar...
Soapy & Foggy. Not many of those younger painters were represented in the Met's exhibition, though a bequest from the late great Photographer and Art Promoter Alfred Stieglitz helped bring the Met's collection up to date, and the museum had bought 50-odd paintings in two years to fill some of the remaining gaps. Among its selections were a soapy surfscape by Frederick Waugh, a dusty studio composition by Robert Brackman, and a foggy abstraction by Theodores Stamos. The conservative Met had clearly done its backbending best to give contemporary art a fair, inclusive showing...