There were 80,000 witnesses inside the stadium, including Milan's owner, Silvio Berlusconi, but not, alas, Gianni Agnelli, the former patron of Juventus.
He was a long-time supporter of music in New York and Palm Beach, a former patron of the Metropolitan Opera, and a talented artist who exhibited photographs and paintings.
As a former patron of the New York Philharmonic, I would urge those redesigning Avery Fisher Hall (front page, May 20) to change a feature of its current design that I find far more annoying than the acoustics: the placement of its seats along the side tiers at right angles to the stage.
While former patrons of the old Lone Star Cafe might at this point in the narrative suspect some impending connection to venereal disease, the facility actually houses reptiles and amphibians.
At the book signing, Mr. Epstein, who now lives in Glen Cove, greeted former patrons of My Father's Place while Mr. Lee performed.
The Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads sister groups — started with aid from Karl Rove, the chief strategist for former President George W. Bush, and financed in part by former patrons of Mr. Bush from the oil and gas and financial industries — have spent more than $2 million to topple Mr. Reid, according to CMAG.
The secret police under Mr. Markovic's command are thought to have been involved in the fatal shooting of a prominent independent newspaper editor, Slavko Curuvija, during the 1999 war over Kosovo and in the disappearance of Ivan Stambolic, a former president of Serbia and onetime patron of Mr. Milosevic who vanished last August and may have been killed.
Now, however, a number of policymakers, including the former patron saint of Fannie and Freddie, Barney Frank, are calling for direct subsidies to home buyers.
Wearing a pale shirt, corduroy pants, black boots and a St. Christopher medal -- the former patron saint of travelers no longer recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, disenfranchised like a Springsteen character -- Mr. Springsteen sipped a beer and spoke proudly about "The Rising".
Here Mr. Parrott leads it in an unusual program, "J. S. Bach's Lost Memorial to Prince Leopold," a re-creation of Bach's "Lament, Children, Lament for All the World" (BWV 244a), performed at the funeral of Bach's former patron at the court of Cöthen, in 1729.
In February, Wang Lijun, a former police chief, tried to defect to the U.S. and accused the family of his former patron, Bo Xilai, the Party secretary of Chongqing, of murder and embezzlement.
