Word: patronizer
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Beniamino Bufano is a small, swart, untamable sculptor of 40, whose adventures have included sojourns with China's sainted Sun Yatsen, India's Mahatma Gandhi. For about ten years he has been possessed by the ambition to give San Francisco a colossal statue of its "patron" St. Francis of Assisi, envisioned finally as a 150-ft. figure of glittering stainless steel. His first model for this won the approval of the local WPA, of Archbishop John Joseph Mitty, and, in the end, of the San Francisco art commission. Leading U. S. Franciscans, however, called it a "Mephistophelean monstrosity...
...past, I Follow Saint Patrick is, for him, a strangely subdued and pious piece of writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...
They were the Democratic National Committee's brilliant chief press agent, Charles Michelson, whose first feat was to smear Hoover, and his G. O. P. counterpart, Franklyn Thomas Waltman Jr. Dark, 35-year-old Republican Waltman paid elaborate tribute to the libertarian legacy of Democratic Patron Saint Thomas Jefferson, worked himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under...
...imperialism, Batopilas was a wonderful place to grow up in. The prosperous mines shipped as much as $200,000 worth of bullion a month. The native workmen were contented, friendly, pleased with their steady wages, the company store, the hospital, the electric lights, respectful toward the manager El Patron Grande and his sons, Los Patroncitos. The countryside was beautiful, with orange trees growing within high hacienda walls, with the swift Batopilas rushing beside the house, with ruins left by the Spaniards, who had worked the mines...
...real skull to a friend who passed it on to a well-known Viennese doctor. Eventually it wound up in the possession of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, who placed it on exhibition in 1895. Meanwhile, the heirs of Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's friend and patron, had built a magnificent mausoleum in Eisenstadt for Haydn's remains, but refused to have them buried in it without his head. For many years legal complications have held up Haydn's reunion. Last week, when it was reported that the Nazis had ordered the return of Haydn...