Word: patron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat who has long worked with the Premier, "has done more to advance democratic government than any other statesman...
...Corporation has established a new professorship of Music in honor of the late philanthropist and patron of music, Miss Fanny P. Mason, Provost Buck announced yesterday. A. Tillman Merritt, professor of Music, has been named to fill the new chair...
...shoes, and uses the gee-whiz vocabulary of Henry Aldrich. He has also become rich (two Cadillacs, a 32-ft. Chris-Craft and a private plane) by inducing thousands of Americans without skill or talent to take up oil painting. Klein, a graduate chemist, got his training as a patron of the arts by running a garage and working at General Motors, where he bossed 40 men ironing out production bugs for G.M.'s subcontractors. But he longed for something more creative. Recalls Klein: "Gee whiz, it got terrible being stuck there at General Motors. I began to look...
...Proprietor Joy Hawley, who had experience with direct-mail advertising, wrote personal letters to hundreds of residents of Orlando and nearby Winter Park. She and her gift-shop partner, Helen Ryan, decided to call anyone who gave $5,000 or more an angel. A benefactor gives $1,000, a patron $500, and so on to associate members, who give $5. Last year the letters brought in $37,000 toward this season's budget...
...lonely hill near the Indian village of Sravana Belgola, in the state of Mysore, stands a stone statue, 57 ft. high, of a stiffly poised man with a quiet, half-smiling face. The statue's name is Gomateswara, and he is a patron saint of India's Jain religion, an ancient offshoot of Hinduism. Half the population of India were once Jains, but their numbers have now shrunk to a bare 1,500,000. They dwindled possibly because of the ritual difficulties of their religion, which favors a strict asceticism and holds, among other tenets, that a believer...