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Mrs. Hetty Wilks, who learned the art of dollar-pinching from her fabulously rich mother Hetty ("The Witch of Wall Street") Green, left an estate estimated at more than $75 million. Except for $1,000,000 to be divided among friends and servants, the estate goes to 63 charities, churches...
Had it not been for the speech by President Detlev Wulf Bronk, Johns Hopkins University's 75th anniversary last week would have been like any other mildly retrospective academic ceremony. There were the usual distinguished visitors, wearing the hoods of great universities from Paris to Peking. There were prayers...
Isaiah Bowman, late president of Johns Hopkins, studied geography here as an undergraduate fifty years ago when many schools were neglecting it. Today's College student finds only a handful of courses on the subject. Undergraduate concentration is impossible, and no graduate students want to come here for their Ph.D...
Mrs. Wilks, who died on February 5, left almost all of her money to 63 charitable institutions, including M.I.T., Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Fordham, Vassar, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Looking Around. TVmen in other cities attribute the poor quality of their local shows to lack of money and talent. But a few enterprising stations have found unexpected riches in their own backyards by inviting the cooperation of home-town civic groups, museums, universities. Baltimore's WAAM-TV got...