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Like her mother, Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Rowland Green Wilks was a lonely, frugal recluse. She dwelt alone in a Manhattan apartment, wore cheap, drab clothing, doted on newspaper comic strips. After her death a year ago at 80, officials found her will stuffed in a tin cabinet along with four cakes of soap. It cut off her closest relative, a cousin, with $5,000 (later raised to $140,000 after court action), divided most of the fortune among 63 charities and educational institutions...
Both critics and defenders of the letter expressed their viewpoints sharply last night. "The academic sculptors are afraid someone might cut in on their commissions," commented Benjamin Rowland Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts. "If you come right down to it, academic sculpture is more expressive of the Nazi and Communist party lines than anything which shows freedom of expression," he said...
...shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking too loudly...
American Forum of the Air (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). "Too Much Football?" Speakers: the Eastern College Athletic Conference's Commissioner Asa Bushnell, George Washington University's Coach J. H. Rowland, ex-Footballers Arthur Bergman (Notre Dame) and La Vern Dilweg (Green Bay Packers...
These paintings have ben loaned to Fogg from six museums and several private collections. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts, said that "this is the last collection of the sort in the United States...