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Died. Mrs. Alice Warder Garrett, sixtyish, great lady of Baltimore society and widow of John W. Garrett, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Italy; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A longtime patron of the arts, she was the main support of Baltimore's Musical Arts Quartet, a chamber music group for which she built a special theater in her home...
...India for two months. One worked as a clerk, another in the library, another helped out at primary elections. Their enthusiasm spread across the campus. The local chapter of Alpha Phi went without desserts and saved $80 for the project. Sunday-school classes contributed their pennies. Then an anonymous patron donated $15,000 to cover transportation costs...
...however, when Romanoff's was faced with A ruin by the very snob appeal that had helped make it famous. The original restaurant, which had a front room and a back room, in time became such a reviewing stand for the great that if any eminent patron was not given one of the five tables in the front room he would leave. Inasmuch as almost every customer considered himself entitled to one of these tables, and no one wanted to be seen alive in the back room, the seating problem became acute. In 1950, Romanoff's lost money...
...This is probably the most nervous generation of Americans who ever lived. The patron saint of the Irish is St. Patrick; of the English, St. George. The patron saint of Americans is St. Vitus . . . The American people are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon . . . That's a sad situation." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
Gabriel took up where his uncle left off. Buying sparely but wisely, and using his money to sponsor rising artists, he soon became a widely respected patron of the arts. Then World War II came along...