Millionaire's Bequests To Servants And Friends
Received Thursday, 8.50 p.m. SlN FRANCISCO, March 30. Under the will of the late Atwatei Kent who died on March 4, his 11 em oloyees will receive a total of .351,00" dollars with the butler receiving tln Largest sum — 100,000 dollars plus- 500' dollars annually. He left 2,000,00; dollars to his widow from whom he had been separated for eight years, and 1,333,000 dollars to charilies and educa tional institutions. Bequests totalling 442,000 doliar^ were made to 73 friends, inciuding sui-h llollywood celebrities as Greer Garsoti (10,000 dollars), the ventriloquist Edgai Gergen (3000 dollars), Billie But'kf (4000 doll&i's), and Cornel Wilde (4001 dollars).
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1949, Page 5
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