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Bostonians never got around to naming anything much after Curley except a recreation building at a city hospital, an elementary school and a public bath. Then Boston planners learned that the city was about to receive some special building funds. The bequest came from an upper-crust Yankee lawyer named Edward Ingersoll Browne, who left part of his trust to the city of Boston "for the adornment and benefit of said city by the erection of statues, monuments, fountains for men and beasts and for the adornment of its streets, ways, squares and parks." James Michael Curley's commemorative...
...which has been discovered in Panama alone. Jones apparently hoped to give $7 million to the Soviet Union. Three couriers say that they were sent by Jones from the mass death scene with more than $300,000 in cash and letters informing the Soviet embassy in Guyana of the bequest, but abandoned the suitcase of money in the jungle because it got too heavy. The Guyanese government recovered the cash, and the cult's accounts in Panama were frozen. The Justice Department requested that the banks not allow anyone to withdraw the money. Buford's attorney Mark Lane...
Navarro's minor miracle restored his name to favor among the Eastern coaching establishment and so he decided to leave his self-imposed exile at the bequest of Princeton athletic director Royce N. Flippin...
...property became available to Harvard as a bequest option in the will of Theodore Storer '18. The University completed the transactions last Friday...
...vibrant testament of where America is and where it's been going. As the country produces new faces and images, TIME will continue to capture them on its covers. And, by a special agreement with the National Portrait Gallery, the magazine will add new covers to its bequest every year...