Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bequests made to Harvard University during the summer total $845,000. James Loeb '88, left three. The first was a $300,000 "Loeb Classical Library Foundation" for research in Greek and Latin literature; the second a $500,000 trust fund for Harvard University, the income from which is to be used to increase salaries of tutors and assistants in the department of the classics; and the third, a, $5,000 bequest to the University Library, the income from which is to be used for maintaining the Loeb Library...
...Carrie M. Smith, widow of Dr. Bugene H. Smith, onetime dean of the Harvard Dental School, established a $10,000 trust fund in memory of her husband $30,000 was left by Annie B. M. Smith of Boston...
Staged first before Tsar Alexander III in 1893, lolanthe had its U. S. premiere only last week. It was revived for the New York Musicians Emergency Fund in the outdoor theatre of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, at Scarborough. Soprano Lola Monti-Gorsey as lolanthe, Bass-Baritone Vasily Romakoff as the king, easily outdid a strident chorus of autumn katydids, sang their roles with grace and finesse. Guest of honor was sixtyish. grey-haired Margaret Eichenwald, who was coached for the role of lolanthe at its premiere by Tchaikovsky, now teaches voice at the Vocal Studio in Manhattan. The other...
During the War, Friends Toklas & Stein tried to live in Paris as if nothing was happening ; when that became impossible they went to Mallorca. The attack on Verdun brought them back to Paris, where they decided to equip and drive a Ford truck for the American Fund for French Wounded. Miss Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein...
...Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo...