Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took refuge in New York, and married the heiress and art patron Peggy Guggenheim a year later. After the war ended, he divorced Peggy, married Artist Dorothea Tanning and built a house in Arizona. Life there resulted in a magnificent series of Arizona mountains, bleak and burning under their immobile suns...
Died. Max Yasgur, 53, upstate New York dairy farmer who, when original plans for a 1969 weekend rock concert went awry because of local regulations, became the patron saint of the counterculture when he opened his 600-acre farm to more than 300,000 uninhibited, youthful celebrators of the Woodstock festival; of an apparent heart attack; in Marathon...
There were two immediate predictions as to the consequences: 1) that the uproar would jeopardize Frankie's friendship with his chief political patron, Vice President Spiro Agnew; 2) that the friendship might jeopardize Agnew's ties with his own patron, Richard Nixon...
...priced, decent, and the atmosphere is good," said one patron, who cats there two to three nights every week...
...some time that he was tired of administrative work. Five years ago he had brought in ex-Newspaper Editor Richard C. Wald as a News vice president. Last June, when Frank made Wald his second in command, it seemed clear that Wald was being groomed to succeed his patron. With that change accomplished, Frank now plans to return to producing news documentaries...