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...bequest was one that any museum in the world would have been overjoyed to get, but only the new Jerusalem Museum of Art has so persuasive a booster as U.S. Showman Billy Rose. For years curators and directors have been angling for the Lipchitz plasters-so many, in fact, that the great sculptor hardly knew which way to turn. Then one day Lipchitz' old friend Billy came to call in his capacity as the chairman of the Jerusalem Museum's art committee. After talking with Billy. Lipchitz suddenly realized that to give his plasters to Israel...
Passion for Quality. Now back on the job after his third hospitalization for cancer in 18 months. Fred Maytag staunchly says: '"I do not intend to diminish my activities in any respect." He is acutely aware that Grandfather Maytag's most valuable bequest was his craftsman's passion for high mechanical quality. Mass production has made this increasingly hard to achieve-especially in complicated automatic washers. So once again, Maytag is bucking the trend with a pilot program giving each worker a more complex role to perform on the assembly line. Says one woman employee, whose...
Despite disappointments arising from increased economic and servicing pressures, the University did acquire several major additions. Included in the acquisitions was Bernard Berenson's bequest of I Tatti, his villa near Florence. With his gift came a collection of more than 50,000 books and perhaps 300,000 photographs which he had assembled there...
...this, Harvard has adopted different approaches. Instead of establishing a special college, Harvard affiliated with the leading Chinese school, Yenching University. Instead of emphasizing humanitarianism, it emphasized the humanities. And, most important, instead of relying largely upon annual gifts from alumni and friends, the University received a single large bequest making establishment of the Harvard-Yenching Institute possible...
...real hit, amassed his fortune not as the "Wild Bull of the Pampas" but as the owner of six ranches on it. But to whom did Bachelor Firpo leave the bulk of his estimated $4,000,000 estate? To his longtime great and good friend. Miss Blanca Picard-a bequest his relatives are now contesting in Buenos Aires. The argument over Hammerstein's reported $10 million to $15 million estate was not among heirs (his widow will receive 49%, with his three children dividing the remainder), but between tax-hungry states-New York, where he worked, and Pennsylvania, where...