Prices ebbed last year as many longtime Masters patrons from the corporate side, battered by the recession and sensitive to public scrutiny over entertainment spending, stayed home.
Less than five miles away, Masters patrons, many of whom pay for price-gouged hotel rooms and scalped tickets, find virtual throwback prices for sandwiches ($1.50 to $2.50), ice cream ($2), soda ($1.50) and fruit and other snacks ($1).
Augusta National reveals no information about its Masters patrons, as the club steadfastly calls them, but it is generally conceded that the average age of an attendee is well past 55.
Even today, Sampson writes, black workers must have holes cut in their overall pockets to prevent them from accepting tips from Masters "patrons".
Masters patrons are too genteel, too grateful to be munching on $2 sandwiches as they walk on golf's most idyllic inland property.
It is likely that the gradual estrangement of his two masters and patrons from Ibn Tūmart's theology and their preoccupation with Islamic law also helped him.
Matthew Raguso, the only shave-teaching barber left in the city, is interviewed, as are several other barbers and a patron of Vito, the master barber.
The collections of Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin, wealthy merchants who were early patrons of European modernist masters, were nationalized after the Bolshevik Revolution and turned into the Museum of New Western Art in Moscow, which was shut down by Stalin in 1948 as ideologically suspect.
Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, continues to maintain that he has nothing to do with the separatists even as their political leadership has lately visited Moscow begging for more materiel and even opened a satellite office there to coordinate their activities more closely with their master and patron.
Masters "patron badges," alias tickets, are always available from scalpers.
