Word: patronism
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...garish side, Mary Vogel Walton has a bad diction problem ("lit-tle, Lat-tin, . ."). Despite her handsome bearing, when she opens her enough what comes out is dull, thus reducing the Dean's patron (and former pupil) to a dramatic nonentity, Kathrya Schoes (Cora Jenks) commits the converse sin of unmitigated shricking...
Died. Vivian Beaumont Allen, sixtyish, bubbly socialite art patron and philanthropist, daughter of May Co. Department Store Mogul Joseph Shoenberg, an ardent theater angel who in 1958 donated $3,000,000 toward the $8,500,000 cost of the 1,100-seat repertory theater destined for Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Parents and police are thoroughly aware of the important role the teen-age club plays in keeping the youngsters off the streets and out of mischief. "If I wasn't here," said one ducktailed Boston club patron last week, "I'd be out stealing hubcaps." For the ordinary teen-agers with less tendency to delinquency, the clubs' value is more positive: like San Francisco's Claudia French, teen-agers across the U.S. are finding food, fun and, most important, friends under one companionable roof, designed especially for them...
...accounts," wrote William Allen, "he is like to turn out a very extraordinary person in the painting way, and it is a pity such a genius should be warped for want of a little cash." The faith of Justice Allen-the New World's first important art patron-was justified; for young Benjamin West did indeed turn out to be extraordinary "in the painting way." He was not only, along with John Singleton Copley, one of America's first two major painters; he was a dominating influence across the Atlantic as well...
King Edward VII refused to dine at friends' houses unless Rosa was there to cook the bland, boiled food that, in her words, "would not spill down is shirt front." Edward was an ardent patron of the hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs and squires on the spree; as Prince of Wales he reputedly bankrolled his blonde, blue-eyed friend when she bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that...