Word: patronism
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While the list of Fogg's children is long and noteworthy, its guardians are even more impressive. Rulers of the roost and general patron saints are the members of the Visiting Committee appointed annually by the Board of Overseers. Chaired by Winthrop Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank, the committee this year consists of the usual variety of collectors and scholars, including such notables as Robert Woods Bliss, former ambassador to Argentina; David E. Finley, director of the National Gallery; Everett V. Meeks, chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Yale; and Charles R. Morey, chairman of the same...
...Father Coughlin had suddenly chosen to submit could only be surmised. Said Detroit's Archbishop Edward Francis Mooney, no patron of Coughlin's: "My understanding with him is sufficiently broad and firm to exclude effectively the recurrence of any such unpleasant situation...
Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...
...General MacArthur's good friend and patron, the Philippines' President Manuel Quezon, turned up last week in Australia, immediately set up an absentee Government. Another who arrived from the Philippines was TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby...
...graduate has remained incognito to all Harvard officials, including Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, for over a decade. Bingham has corresponded with the unknown, philanthropist through the trust officer of the First National Bank of Boston, but has never learned the name of Harvard's great swimming patron...