Word: patronism
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...Depression. Last year the second Baron Rothschild, now grown to look like a huge-paunched, twinkle-eyed St. Nick with a Ph.D., wrote the American Museum a reluctant letter offering to sell most of his birds. They had cost him around $1,000,000, but when a rich Museum patron offered half that much the deal was closed. Curator Robert Cushman Murphy hastened to Tring last February, helped classify, catalog, pack the nearly 280,000 specimens. Last week the Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring...
...Senator Clark's son William Andrews Jr., older than the Boutet de Monvel children, is now patron of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (TIME...
...Emperor K'ang-hsi, is printed on specially treated paper in multiple colors, using black, red, yellow, and green inks to produce a brilliant display. The colors have remained fast to the present day. Many monumental works were produced in the reign K'anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged by rhymes. The complicated system of symbols used in the Chinese alphabet at this period rendered the task a life work for a large commission...
Unlike most such organizations, the Society boasts of no one patron who defrayed its new building's construction cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund?an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal...
...Patron Clark's father, the late fierce-whiskered Senator from Montana, taught his son to spend liberally. The elder Clark built a 130-room house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, equipped it with a $3,000,000 art collection, a $120,000 gold dinner service. Senator Clark was a mule-skinner before he made his copper fortune. Son William had earlier advantages, took to them more quietly. He was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, acquired a love for books which has led to one of the most important private collections in the world...