Word: patron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death of a Patron. Few campuses anywhere in the world have traveled more resolutely towards their goal over a more precarious road. Ewha was at first such a suspect place that its pupils went about in veils to conceal their identity. But the school did have one powerful patron-patriotic Queen Min, who in 1895 was to meet death in her own palace at the hands of Japanese infiltrators. By 1910, when Japan finally annexed Korea, the idea of education for women was so well established that Ewha began adding college courses...
...countries exhibiting at Venice's Biennale, the U.S.alone gets by without government sponsorship. By custom, American museums have done the selecting, and private benefactors the financing of the U.S. entries. This year Chicago Financier and Art Patron Arnold Maremont picked up the check, and Katharine Kuh picked out the pictures. Her theme: "American Artists Paint the City...
...long haul, the artist's best bet for a steady income is a gallery contract, a monthly payment of $50 to $150 for "first look" rights. Portrait commissions, once the artist's standby, have practically dried up; the art patron willing to finance a painter is as scarce in inflation-ridden France as a gold franc note. Many artists barter their works for art materials, do part-time drudge work painting lead soldiers, washing bottles, painting houses...
...broke on the second issue, but Tambi kept it alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron of the arts with a flourish, built PL's circulation to 10,000, made it a proving ground for Britain's promising younger poets. But a managerial rift brought the magazine to its death...
...Raider. In Oklahoma City, Robert Simms Popejoy was fined $7 after he walked into a restaurant, strolled over to one of the booths, blandly took a bite out of a patron's hamburger...