Word: patronism
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...pharmacist can tell you that heroine of the Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...
Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported...
...born tenor, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a million-dollar gift in the form of a collection of its own choosing. The museum, already the possessor of one of the best public collections of early American arts and crafts, has for six years been helping Patron Maxim Karolik pick up the best American antiques in the 13 original colonies...
...paintings by oldtime U.S. artists like Winslow Homer and George Inness, Thomas J. Watson has spent the past four years talking art-mindedness to U.S. business, has had his own International Business Machines Corp. go on a spree of art buying and exhibiting that would have shamed many a patron of the Italian Renaissance...
...Calling it "The Squared Circle," in three issues she filled the right-hand side with pro-Roosevelt editorials. The left-hand side was filled with pro-Willkie editorials by her husband of two years, Harry Frank Guggenheim, 51-year-old copper tycoon, ex-Ambassador to Cuba, aviation patron. ("My husband is traditionally a Republican. I'm not traditionally anything...