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Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...
Arriving at the Paris Opéra for the French premiere of Tales of Hoffmann, French Ballerina Ludmilla Tcherina, one of the film's starring dancers, struck some new fashion notes: a diamond bauble pasted on her forehead, a small blue feather dove on each of her bared shoulders...
Porter's Apprentice. Weinberg started his climb to the top when he was ten years old. One of eleven children of a Brooklyn furrier, he went to work selling papers, soon became a "flower & feather horse," i.e., a delivery boy for women's hats. He went to Wall Street during the 1907 Panic, earned $5 a day for saving places in lines outside banks that depositors thought would fail. Then he got a job ("assistant to the porter") with Goldman, Sachs...
...typical musical selection was the following, by Mathies (Theodore L. Gershuny '54), a "feather from the left wing...
...method is a series of direct comparisons between the activities of the two in such areas as "thought control," "discipline and devotion" and "the strategy of penetration." Blanshard has satisfied himself that Stalin and the Pope aje pretty much birds of a feather, though he does indulge in such naive conclusions as: "The Communist Party, with all its faults, is tremendously interested in improving the receiving capacity of the Russian mind." Readers can fairly ask: To receive what...