A great California fortune came to San Francisco's late Senator James Duval Phelan when he was 21. When he died in 1930, aged 69, he left $20,000 to Tennist Helen Wills Moody, $20,000 to Author Gertrude Atherton, scores of other bequests to natives whose brain or brawn had reflected credit on his beloved state.* Last week another of the Senator's benefactions posthumously bore fruit when the San Francisco Art Association awarded the first $2,000 Phelan Traveling Scholarship to Helen Elizabeth Phillips, a young sculptor who in all her 23 years has...
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