Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...
...allots its sparse treasury selectively, and for PBS that is an accepted practice. But a great rift erupted between PBS and CPB early this year when the CPB itself attempted to exert creative control over programming. In the past, CPB had been a patron of the television arts, and a rubber stamp for the creative talents of professionals at PBS. But Loomis sought to bypass PBS and its "Eastern liberal" point of view. CPB directors voted unamimously to begin the financing and distribution of specific programs to affiliates. PBS was to be limited to the operation of technical facilities...
...prodigies have had better luck. At 16 he was introduced to Count Guillermo de Morphy, a patron of the arts and adviser to Spain's Queen Maria Cristina. The count tutored Casals in several languages and presented him to the Queen, who was an enthusiastic pianist. Soon the Queen and the young cellist were playing duets together...
Thus music lovers heard with relief that Avery Fisher, 67, a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi components, has given an estimated $10 million to maintain what now becomes Avery Fisher Hall, and the fourth Lincoln Center building named for benefactors. Philanthropist Vivian Beaumont Allen gave $5,000,000, Arts Patron Alice Tully, an estimated $5,000,000, and Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse...
LESSER AND GREATER men and women have attempted to become Crimson editors, and some famous people have failed. Walter Lippman '10, a patron saint of journalism, was cut four times. William Randolph Hearst '96, the Xanadu of newspaper owners, never bothered to try out. And neither seemed the worse...