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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such cases is that the donor's intentions, s expressed in the original agreement, is binding. The conflict here revolved mainly around the relation that the Arnold trustees intended between Harvard and the Arboretum. The gift might be considered an outright grant to the University with strings, attached, like a gift to Harvard for scholarship funds. This was, to oversimplify, a major line taken by Ropes-Gray. In such a case, the University is free to use the funds for whatever purpose it feels will further its purpose. The report added, however, that use of the Arboretum must also...
...Dendrology chair. There were clear assurances that Arboretum funds would be devoted primarily to Arboretum assets, and those assets, and those assets would be segregated and identified wherever they were. The Bailey Plan would not be applied, and it was formally conceded that the Arboretum is an express trust...
...could go coroneted to acclaim your Queen in Westminster Abbey with the stain of divorce on you," wrote an angry Sunday Express columnist last year, "but you cannot, if so stained, have the duke's permission to cheer her horse at Ascot." Barred bluebloods saw red when divorced American Actor Douglas Fairbanks got into the enclosure. But there was nothing they could do. (Fairbanks got his passes through the U.S. embassy; had he been a British subject he would have stayed outside with his peers, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Randolph Churchill...
...match was so one-sided that the stadium rocked to the shrill and scornful sound of the "Moscow Whistle," a nerveracking Eastern echo of The Bronx cheer. English sportswriters found it all terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before battered Arsenal had crawled out of the floodlit stadium tonight, 75,000 Russians were laughing like kids at a pantomime . . . The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust...
...handles operations. Before he joined Bell in 1943, Faneuf had worked at almost everything else but aviation. After graduating from Vermont's Norwich University (1926), Faneuf became commandant of the Niagara Falls De Veaux School. The next year he was on the copy desk at the Buffalo Courier-Express, a year later went back to teaching (French) at Buffalo's exclusive Nichols School for boys. He kept on job-jumping (political reporter at the now defunct Buffalo Times, secretary to Buffalo's mayor, district manager of Buffalo's OPA office) before joining Bell as Larry Bell...