Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most adventurous big-money backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
...loneliness settles over the President, it might perhaps violate good taste to suggest that he assume some of Mr. Adams' duties. One should perhaps leave him with his memories of Gettysburg and Newport and muddied mentor...
...Metropolitan France for the occasion. In a week of sabotage and terrorism, F.L.N. agents shot up soldiers and policemen, blew up gas tanks and prefectures, booby-trapped an army tank bound for Algeria. Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart of Paris. Trigger-happy police began shooting down dark-skinned Italians and Portuguese in the belief that they were...
...Point Count. By the early 1930s, having switched to contract along with everybody else, Goren ghosted for ex-Mentor Milton Work's syndicated column. Work got about $20,000 a year out of the column, paid Goren $35 a week-a disparity that Goren still resents. A talented and proud writer with a flair for gently whimsical humor, Goren vividly recalls that Boss Work would invariably "edit out the brightness...
...Called "the best of the nonprofessionals" by no less an authority than Charles Goren, Gruenther also became the bridge mentor of his sometime boss, Dwight Eisenhower, the first good bridge player among U.S. Presidents. *The tournament team headed by Houston Bridge Pro John Gerber devised the Gerber convention in 1937 as a less troublesome substitute for the Blackwood, invented in 1933 by Indianapolis Insuranceman Easley Blackwood. Instead of using the Blackwood four-no-trump bid to ask partner how many aces he has, the Gerber convention starts out with four clubs, with partner responding four diamonds for one ace, four...