Word: bequestioned
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...finish it down to its final gargoyle and grotesque. If the money were now in hand, the job could be finished within 15 years. Progress, says the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop of Washington, depends "on very substantial legacies and gifts." The present construction fund-mainly the bequest of the late Harriette Chandler Sheldon and her brother James, of a New York banking family-amounts to four million dollars...
...name, but scarcely the intent, of Joseph Pulitzer, a crusading 19th century journalist who founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, introduced comic strips and sensational headlines (LOVE AND CIGARETTES CRAZED HIM) in his New York World, and willed $2.000,000 to Columbia University. All but $500,000 of the bequest was earmarked for the establishment of a journalism school. Pulitzer reserved the smaller sum for the annual prize contest* that bears his name...
...will, Brancusi had made one surprising stipulation in his bequest to the museum: his collection must be shown in an exact replica of his old studio. For five years the museum dragged its feet, and it was not until this month that the public could see the studio reproduced, at last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped...
After Erickson's death in 1936. his widow's Murray Hill home in Manhattan was regularly visited by museum directors from all over the U.S., who hoped that some flattery at tea might win for their galleries a choice bequest in Mrs. Erickson's will. But most of the paintings were left to her in trust, and Anna Erickson decided that her own estate should be divided into 90 parts, to accommodate all the heirs (relatives, friends and charities), and that meant that it had to be liquidated. She died last Feb. 7 of a stroke; Parke...
...gifts that have little to do with its chosen field. Mrs. Lang gave it a collection of American Indian art that is one of the best in the East. It has a collection of Scotch, Irish and French silverware-and 600 Chinese snuff bottles. But these items came by bequest; the museum uses its own funds to buy U.S. paintings, drawings and etchings...