Word: benefactresses
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...mayor of a charming medieval French village threatening to paint its buildings red, blue and green? And why does la Patronne want the one word, Ouf!, on her tombstone? See THE WORLD, The Benefactress...
...been in the Middle Ages. The few visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria, now 56, found Bargème. Their relationship has led to more distress than Bargème has known in several centuries...
...need his drawings any more." Switching furnaces to keep other glassmakers from copying his methods, Costantini limits each sculpture to an edition of three-one for the artist (who must approve it), one for himself (to sell when the price is right), one for Collector Peggy Guggenheim, an early benefactress of the project. Then he adds his finishing touches. To give a wizened patina to Picasso's sprightly nymphs and fauns, he dipped the little people in acid baths. Now their skins look aged and lived...
Only eight months ago, Bennette, who is also head of the New York Association for the Blind's Lighthouse Music School, proposed his idea to a fellow pianist and teacher at the Lighthouse. Edward Muller, 31. After Bennette found a benefactress, he and Muller were in business...
...ancestors were not so high on the social scale. Well, that hasn't got a cotton-pickin' thing to do with it. There wasn't anything in the world Mrs. Chisholm wouldn't have done for me. But she was my friend first and my benefactress second-whatever I turned out to be, and even if I didn't turn out to be much of anything." Says Mrs. Chisholm of Leontyne: "Don't call me her patron. I don't think I have ever 'patronized' Leontyne. I have only loved...