A bequest of $100,000 to the Hebrew University, subject to compliance with unnamed conditions, is contained in the will of Samuel Untermyer, lawyer and philanthropist, who died on March 16. A 70-acre tract of Untermyer’s Greystone estate in Yonkers was bequeathed to New York State, but has been rejected because the cost of upkeep would be too great.
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