Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soldier. Rose to lieutenant colonel in artillery and infantry commands under the post-1944 leftist government, with time out for study at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and West Point. Bvoke with the government after the 1949 assassination of his friend and patron, anti-Communist Colonel Francisco Arana, Arbenz' main rival for the presidency...
...gaps of white space, splashier illustrations, and a Collier's-like short-short story. As body type for its stories and articles, the Satevepost replaced its familiar Century Schoolbook type with a lighter version of an old-fashioned design by John Baskerville, great and good friend of Satevepost Patron Saint Benjamin Franklin...
...truffles to M. R. Werner (Tammany Hall) and other researchers. The story begins in May 1789, just a few weeks after the U.S. Constitution took effect, when New York City's Society of Tammany adopted its own constitution as a superpatriotic club for 100%-pure Americans. For its patron, the society chose a man whose American credentials could not be questioned: Tammany, sachem (pronounced say-chem) of the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indians), from whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying...
...bound by ties of good fellowships: the Southwest Review Literary Fellowship in 1948, Guggenheim in 1951 and 1952, the McMurray Award for the best first novel by a Texan, The House of Breath, in 1950. His latest work has two qualities that are likely to pluck at a patron's purse strings:1) it is clearly not written in the hope of making any money; 2) it is so unclearly written and hard to read that some people may conclude that it must...
...Publicity Front. Huntington Hartford, A. & P. stores heir and art patron, took full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that art worldlings are pulling the wool over the public's eyes. No friend to modern art, Hartford glibly lists "the diseases that infect the world of painting today" as "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence." He concludes with a call to arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business...