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...named Sally Michel, and married her soon after. Through the ensuing years, Sally supported the family with her illustrations for the children's page of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, freeing Milton to spend his days painting. "I used to tease him and say that his greatest patron was the Times," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Quiet One | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

Alfred Lord Tennyson foresaw it all: "The old order changeth, yielding place to new ..." It took time, but as Guyana became a republic, the 73-year-old statue of Tennyson's patron, Queen Victoria, was hoisted indecorously from its place in front of the Supreme Court building in Georgetown. The old lady did not look amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 2, 1970 | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...pneumonia; in Rome. A wealthy Manhattan socialite, Mrs. Crosby founded the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927 and first published such avant-garde works as Hart Crane's The Bridge, Joyce's Work in Progress and Hemingway's Torrents of Spring; she was also a patron of Ezra Pound and introduced Dorothy Parker, Kay Boyle and William Faulkner to European readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 9, 1970 | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...apart from Pope Paul's birth control encyclical-have caused such a worldwide stir as the abrupt downgrading of more than 200 saints in 1969. Among the popular figures dropped from the universal liturgical calendar were St. Christopher, St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) and England's patron St. George. Now English Roman Catholics are about to recapture some of their lost ground: Pope Paul VI is planning to canonize 40 Roman Catholic martyrs who were condemned to agonizing deaths on the orders of Anglican rulers in the 16th and 17th centuries. The canonization plans have raised fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Furor over Forty | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...grande dame of Philadelphia music and publishing; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. An only child and heiress to Cyrus H. K. Curtis' magazine empire (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal and others), she spent millions to found and support the famed Curtis Institute of Music, was patron to a host of musicians and writers. Her first husband, Edward Bok, was a Pulitzer-prizewinning autobiographer and editor of the Journal; her second was Concert Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose son by a previous marriage, Efrem Jr., currently stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 19, 1970 | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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