Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Various committees concerned with the show have announced other appointments. These include Marta Enebuske '55, assistant producer; Polly Budlong '56, assistant business manager; Sue Sandel '54 and Ann Jefferey '54, co-chairmen of the patron committee. Also appointed are Shirley Johnson '56, chairman of program and flower sellers; Lorraine Tulis '55, chairman of ushers; and Ruth Angier '55, chairman of the program committee. Patricia Zartarian '57 and Joan Hawker '56 were appointed assistants...
...comfort' . . . The New Yorker spotted a movie theater sign on which 'adultery' was used to mean 'adulthood.' From an English periodical I learn that some new houses 'affront the opposite side of the street.' If Mrs. Malaprop is going to become the patron saint of English, what is going to prevent 'contention' from meaning the same thing as 'contentment' or the maker of woodcuts from being called a woodcutter...
Since few people in Princeton own horses, detectives had little trouble in finding this one's patron. He is Donald W. Griffin, Princeton alumni secretary. Griffin could not remember having left the horse anywhere besides his (the horse's) stall...
...member of this committee was Thomas Colt, director of the Portland Art Museum. He hoped-as TIME reported-that "some patron would buy Salem's scorned Venus for Portland's museum, where...her rich beauty would be appreciated...
...Santa Fe, N.Mex. is lettered an appropriate motto: "The art of the craftsman is a bond between the peoples of the world." The building is Santa Fe's new Museum of International Folk Art, and both museum and motto are the gift of a wealthy Chicago art patron named Florence Dibell Bartlett, who has spent 20 years collecting the folk art of 50 countries. On her travels, she noticed that most of the ancient crafts seemed to be dying out. Collector Bartlett decided to build the museum as a showcase for the works of the world's craftsmen...