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...idea of the awards was conceived by Lambdin Kay, public-service director for station WSB in Atlanta, and strenuously pushed by University of Georgia's publicity-minded dean of journalism, John E. Drewry. The University of Georgia itself awarded them, dubbing them after its late patron, Philanthropist George Foster Peabody, great & good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, who helped to found the Warm Springs Foundation...
...Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is 1) a leading patron of U. S. art and scholarship, 2) an index of prosperity. Founded 16 years ago by former U. S. Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife, each year it selects a group of bright young men and women, gives them about $2,500 apiece to be free for a year to write a novel, paint a picture, examine a star. The number of its fellowships depends on the fund's income (one of its chief investments: copper). Their peak: 86 in 1929. Last week the Foundation climbed back almost...
Harvard has always been a liberal patron of the arts. Giving undergraduate artists a chance to exhibit their work would be in line, with her best traditions...
Dame Rumor raced swiftly through the Yard last night spreading far and wide a false story that Mother Advocate's simply divine party, scheduled for this afternoon, was to be called off because R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus and patron of the ballet, had swallowed his chewing...
Captain Cook's expedition took Omai to England from the Sandwich Islands as a treat for Cook's patron, the gaming Earl of Sandwich. This noble savage clicked at once. Lord Sandwich was ravished when Omai, who had never seen a horse, exclaimed: "What a big hog!" He was captivated when, during his first coach journey, Omai observed: "We go one way; houses, fences, trees all go other way. Ver' fine-sit, talk, maybe sleep, and at same time go!" Lady Carew was enchanted when she asked Omai how he liked tea. "Ver' well," he said...