Word: patronism
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...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...
...riskiest experiments an art patron can make is to set a course that keeps him right up with the advance guard; too often the most beckoning highway turns out to be a blind alley. But Collector Edward Root,* a retired college professor with a tidy inheritance to dispose of, is one U.S. art patron with faith in young painters, and especially young U.S. painters. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where 132 of Collector Root's pictures were on exhibit last week, art lovers got a chance to see how well he had followed the changing course...
Starting from Scratch. When the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the patron saint of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi in 1947 to set up the Moslem state for which he had labored so long, he started from scratch. In the government buildings there was nothing but bare walls and a few rickety tables-no chairs, no typewriters, no files or filing system. Telephones were luxuries, and at first government orders were passed back and forth on scraps of paper; there were no bookkeepers, stenographers or clerks, for the simple reason that, in British India, Moslems were fighters and farmers but never office...
...cracking rights were sold to Standard Oil of California and Shell Union in a deal that netted Mrs. Armour $8,216,058. She promptly moved back to the North Shore, invested grandly in Chicago real estate, made a sensational social comeback, and passed her remaining days as a patron of the arts, philanthropist, horticulturist and collector of glass dogs...
Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable...