Word: chatham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There! In Chatham, Ont., administrators finally settled the estate of John McKerroll, dead since 1872, sent to 121 heirs scattered through the U.S. and Can ada their shares, ranging from 25? to $1 each...
...Chatham, Mass...
Over the next 18 months, by working hard at it, Mrs. Barnes managed to give away the whole $3 million-"perfectly anonymously." Some of her benefaction, became known only last week: the founding of Manhattan's Chatham Square Music School; the establishment with Playwright Bella Spewack (wife of OWI's Playwright Sam) of the New York Girls' School Scholarship Fund; the organization of the New York Housing Trust, a war-halted experiment in limited-profits slum-clearance projects...
Artist Doughty's bird-making was interrupted when, after the fall of France, she took a job in the Royal Naval dockyard at Chatham, Kent. Later she was injured at the yards, returned to her porcelain birds in Cornwall. There she lives quietly with her mother, spends most of her days in her studio. The U.S. bird series now numbers ten pairs. Among them: goldfinches, chickadees, indigo buntings, Baltimore Orioles, mockingbirds. One of the fortunate owners of a complete set of Doughty birds: former director of National Audubon Society Mrs. Carll Tucker...
Wrote he: "As a promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...