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Died. Sterling Morton, 75, art patron and philanthropist, who was board chairman of the salt company founded by his father; after gallstone surgery; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...make matters worse, more than half of the church's "livings" are filled by "patrons"-a custom inherited from pre-Norman times, when the privilege (known as "advowson") came to be attached to the estate of the lord of the manor, who can bequeath the privilege or sell it. Thus a priest in search of a parish is never sure to what kind of patron he must sell himself. In Acle, Norfolk, for example, it is Brigadier Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; in Parracombe, Devon it is the Misses Nind; Colonel Pine-Coffin picks the parson for St. Andrews Alwington, Devon...
Polish cab drivers have a patron saint, but the dialectic and a Five-Year Plan prevent the Polish government from believing in a fairy godmother. Which is to say that, despite President Kennedy's hopes for increasing U.S. economic aid to Poland, there are few areas in which such aid would really help the Poles...
Freshman Seminars have brightened an otherwise dull year in the Yard for a fortunate 19 per cent. The success of the seminar programs makes two points clear. First, Harvard students can benefit as much by group study as by individual tutorial. Such groups, whether financed by a generous patron or diversion of some Faculty funds, certainly can be extended through the Houses--with or without academic credit--to reach more than a fraction of a single class. And, secondly, the Freshman Seminars demonstrate in part the uninspiring conditions of the Yard. A calcified required composition course, the presence of disciplinary...
...father, a staunch Catholic, kept a butcher shop in the Schwabing sector of Munich in the years Naziism got started there. More than once, young Franz Josef wrapped cold cuts for a poultry-breeding patron named Heinrich Himmler. Across from the butcher shop at No. 49 Schelling-strasse, Heinrich Hoffman kept a photographic shop where a frequent visitor was a pale, mustached man named Adolf Hitler. One day when Butcher Strauss caught his son-aged five-handing out pamphlets that some brown shirt had given him, he gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. "That," says Franz...