Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trip to New Orleans. If Gait was remembered as shy and pleasant by most of his acquaintances, the Hollywood drinking crowd in the area of an apartment he rented and at the St. Francis Hotel, where he also stayed, recall him as an obsessive racial bigot, an abrasive patron who belted screwdrivers, dozed on the bar stool and bickered with anyone around. Everyone at the Rabbit's Foot Club remembers Gait's big dispute. A young woman had the temerity to tell him that Negroes were "good people." This so enraged Gait that he grabbed...
...that flamboyant self-assessment. While competitors derisively nicknamed him "Black Bart," and grew apoplectic at his unbankerlike antics, he built his savings and loan holding company from a 1958 midget into a $685 million-asset mammoth, fifth largest in the U.S. And he burnished his status by becoming a patron of the arts, a party-giving friend of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and state finance chairman (from 1958 to 1962) of the Democratic Party...
...sometimes happens that a commissioned work-even of a well-known composer-does not please the patron. But usually in such a case, the less said about it, the better; the patron either grits his teeth and holds a performance anyway, or he quietly shelves the work. Last week New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Conductor Werner Torkanowsky broke this protocol by talking for the record about a commissioned work that he had rejected. And what made the case even more striking was the eminence of the composer: Darius Milhaud, 75, durable veteran of the historic Les Six group of French composers...
...York City's Central Park. One-half mile long and barely one-half mile wide, it serves mostly as a fishermen's stopover and a smugglers' base. Once a year pilgrims from Ceylon and India come to the island to pay homage to its patron saint, St. Anthony, in a tiny church that measures only 12 ft. by 14 ft. and can hold at most 100 worshipers. Last week Kachcha Tivu, Tamil words that mean barren island, gained a measure of international prominence by becoming the center of one of history's more ridiculous disputes...
...South has the oddest regional attitude about drinking. Kentucky is practically the capital of the bourbon country, but it also forbids the sale of alcohol in four counties out of five. Widely blanketed by local prohibition laws, the South teems not only with "brown bag" joints, to which the patron brings his own bottle in a paper bag, but also with moonshine distilleries. Yet legal drinking is on the rise throughout the South; the last holdout state, Mississippi, repealed its prohibition law last year...