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Radcliffe's gifts from the Barbour estate now total $1,364,000, since it received a bequest of $711,000 when Barbour died in 1925. His daughter, Mrs. Mary Barbour Blair, life tenant for the estate, died in April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barbour Estate Wills $654,000 to Radcliffe | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Chemical Manufacturer du Pont, creator of Longwood, died last spring at 84. Last week his will disclosed that he had left almost his whole fortune to a benevolent foundation which will keep the famed gardens growing. Total bequest: some $60 million (including 3,000 shares of Christiana Securities Co. at $11.000 a share). Pierre du Pont's gift makes Longwood, open to the public since 1921, one of the world's most richly endowed pieces of real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: $60 Million Bouquet | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Prologue," Thomas' last poem, is part of this bequest, which will be displayed along with works by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Masefield and Ezra Pound. The "Prologue" manuscripts contain the original draft and the finished copy of the poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Receives Thomas Collection | 1/4/1955 | See Source »

Pisces. No theatre yet, but President Pusey will announce a special bequest for an undergraduate herbarium on De Wolfe Street near Dunster House "in line with our policy of emphasizing the College." In the entertainment world, a soft-drink company will attempt to inveigle Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar to reunite for a 4,000,000 dollar bonus, on the condition that Caesar drastically change his last name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick A Star, Any Star... | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...speak for themselves. Some of the most memorable guests: Teacher Ziltha Chandler, who went from Manhattan to Piney Woods 12 years ago to deliver a commencement address and was so struck by what she saw that she is still there: a California businessman who explained how a $9,000 bequest left to his family by a longtime Negro servant was turned over to Jones; the carpenter (now a Baton Rouge contractor) who turned the sheep pen into Jones's first schoolroom. At the program's end, Edwards explained that the school was crippled by its lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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