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...Chartwell country estate years ago, Winston Churchill was deploring a picture that Art Patron Eddie Marsh had persuaded Mrs. Churchill to buy. Said Painter Walter Sickert, who was visiting Churchill: "Our little friend Eddie is not without a certain idiot flair." Last week, four months after Edward Howard Marsh died at the age of 80, a London gallery displayed the pick of the pictures he had collected for himself over the years, and the critics came to a kinder conclusion: "A great midwife of the arts...
...Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat who has long worked with the Premier, "has done more to advance democratic government than any other statesman...
...Corporation has established a new professorship of Music in honor of the late philanthropist and patron of music, Miss Fanny P. Mason, Provost Buck announced yesterday. A. Tillman Merritt, professor of Music, has been named to fill the new chair...
...shoes, and uses the gee-whiz vocabulary of Henry Aldrich. He has also become rich (two Cadillacs, a 32-ft. Chris-Craft and a private plane) by inducing thousands of Americans without skill or talent to take up oil painting. Klein, a graduate chemist, got his training as a patron of the arts by running a garage and working at General Motors, where he bossed 40 men ironing out production bugs for G.M.'s subcontractors. But he longed for something more creative. Recalls Klein: "Gee whiz, it got terrible being stuck there at General Motors. I began to look...
...Proprietor Joy Hawley, who had experience with direct-mail advertising, wrote personal letters to hundreds of residents of Orlando and nearby Winter Park. She and her gift-shop partner, Helen Ryan, decided to call anyone who gave $5,000 or more an angel. A benefactor gives $1,000, a patron $500, and so on to associate members, who give $5. Last year the letters brought in $37,000 toward this season's budget...