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...face of Eddy's own claims to be no more than the inspired founder and leader of the movement. Official publication of the volume has led to a rare outburst of protest from within the ranks, with critics charging that apostasy has resulted from both a bizarre bequest and the faith's financial crisis...
What is the link with Destiny? Disillusioned church members assert that the book was published in order to obtain a bequest of $90 million from the Knapp family, whose fortune was based on California agriculture, real estate and oil. The writer's father Ira was a member of Eddy's inner circle, and the book represents the author's reminiscences and beliefs concerning the founder. Those beliefs were rejected by the ruling board in 1948, shortly after the volume first appeared. Under the terms of the bequest, the Knapp fortune was destined to go to Stanford University...
...fellowship, established in 1938 through the bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman, provides journalists with a year of study in any part of the University and a $25,000 stipend...
While confirming many rumors, Tifft and Jones debunk the darkest: that Judge Robert Worth Bingham murdered the new wife whose bequest enabled him to buy the papers in 1918. They suggest that she died of alcoholism or tertiary syphilis contracted from a prior spouse. Promised revelations about what finally led Barry Sr. to sell prove anticlimactic: senior aides were ready to move on, making continued family operation unmanageable. What really deserted the Binghams was the faith that a family-owned newspaper is more than a mere capital asset. The book never proves that Bingham ownership was all that good...
...Annenberg paintings will mesh very well with the Met's holdings of 19th and early 20th century art, their foundations laid by the massive Havemeyer bequest of 1929 and reinforced by legacies from Stephen Clark, Sam Lewisohn and Robert Lehman. Annenberg's paintings include several Cezannes, most conspicuously the great 1902-06 panorama of Mont Sainte-Victoire, so different from the Met's more constricted version of the same subject. The collection includes works by Gauguin, Monet, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard, and a group of Monets from the 1870s -- a phase of the master's work not well represented...