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...there are 400 things that London's progressive Tate Gallery can't abide, they are the pictures and sculptures that for the past 52 years have been drifting in from the bequest of wealthy Victorian Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line...
Mabel S. Greer's contested $500,000 bequest to Harvard will probably be divided between the University and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, according to Henry A Wood Jr. deputy Treasurer of the College...
Dictionary Publisher Adam Wagnalls (born Wagenhals) of Funk & Wagnalls was born in' Lithopolis in 1843. When daughter Mabel Wagnalls Jones died two years ago, in Manhattan, she left most of her estate to the little town. Last week tax appraisers finally put a price tag on her unusual bequest. The money hadn't been left to the citizens themselves (though several tried to collect their "share"), but to the Wagnalls Memorial...
...Wagnalls bequest authorized the memorial's six trustees to award scholarships of $100 a semester to every Lithopolis (or Bloom Township) boy & girl who wanted to go to college, no matter what his grades or promise. Last week the first two scholarships had been approved: Marilyn Good, 18, would study the organ at Ohio's Otterbein College, and Donald Speakman, 18, was planning to take up farming at Ohio State. But Lithopolitans were worried. As Mrs. Mabel Stevenson, the memorial's secretary, said: "With all this new money, you can't tell just what kind...
Paintings, including masterpieces by Rodin, Whistler, and Roosetti, are included in the gift which museum authorities estimate have actually doubled the size of the original Fogg collection. Winthrop also included $100,000 in his bequest to care for the art objects...