Word: subpatron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Subpatron of the Arts. Tambimuttu (Tambi to intimates), born in Ceylon, educated at a Roman Catholic college, is no stranger to the West. Tambi settled in London in 1937 at the age of 21, and within two years launched Poetry London on a ?5 shoestring. The magazine went broke on the second issue, but Tambi kept it alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron...
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