Word: patronizing
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...press conference last week about Schlesinger's version, President Johnson maintained that he had truly been wanted. Kennedy, said L.B.J., "asked me on his own motion to go on the ticket with him, and I gave him my reasons for hesitating." Johnson's old friend and congressional patron, the late House Speaker "Mr. Sam" Rayburn, was initially dead set against L.B.J.'s joining the Kennedy ticket; so was virtually everyone else in Johnson's camp. But Kennedy, President Johnson declared at his news conference, "told me he would speak to Speaker Rayburn and others...
...will not be an easy task, for public opinion is often against them. In Cologne, the pastor of powerful St. Ursula's Roman Catholic Church has warned that if a hostel is ever opened he will demand the removal of St. Ursula as the city's patron saint...
...bouncy, wake-up opening number and the tender love ballad, he takes his portable microphone on a teaser tour of the stageside tables, establishing the all-important "eye contact" with the ladies. Highlight of the mingle-with-the-matrons sequence is when he takes the hand of a giggling patron, drops to one knee and breathes Come to Me, Bend to Me, always climaxed by a buss on the cheek. This gives way to cozy time, in which the crooner mounts a stool to sing a round of songs categorized either as upbeat (My Kind of Girl-sung with eyes...
...other times, his painting reflects a mercurial temperament tinged with bitterness. He aimed to please-to a point. He included in St. Anthony the patron who was to donate the work to the church. Drawing the line at flattering the man, Romanino portrayed him, standing at the foot of the saint, as hawk-nosed, heavy-jowled and haughty...
Died. Gertrude Clarke Whittall, 97, Washington patron of the arts who, after the death of her husband, wealthy Rug Manufacturer Matthew Whittall, in 1922, began the first of many endowments by presenting five priceless Stradivari instruments and Tourte bows to the Library of Congress, at the same time establishing a $1,225,000 Whittall Foundation to sponsor concerts (admission price: 25?) at which they would be played, and in later years a $644,000 Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund for readings and lectures; of complications following a hip injury; in Washington...