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Rarely since John Adams set up the U.S.'s first ministry in London had a U.S. ambassador-designate faced more difficult diplomatic beginnings than John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 52. In the bitter aftermath of Suez, Jock Whitney, nominated last week to succeed Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, faces the awesome task of restoring full U.S.-British concord and confidence in a country split by a new sense of its own rights and wrongs, in which the U.S. is the most convenient scapegoat...
...Jock Whitney was born and raised to be nobody's scapegoat. During 30 years in the public eye, he has interested and involved himself energetically and capably in so many facets of American life that he is well equipped to hold his own on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration...
Push for Pushcart. Whitney's grandfathers were Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of State John Hay, and William Collins Whitney, a street-railway tycoon and multimillionaire. Thanks principally to Grandfather Whitney, Jock Whitney is endowed with a fortune of some $60 million (which will tide him through the London embassy's estimated excess expenditure of $50,000 a year above the ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York...
London: Aging Sportsman and Financier (Chase Manhattan Bank) Winthrop Aldrich, 71, will retire, probably to be replaced by a younger sportsman and financier (and Eisenhower bridge partner), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
Wherever he rode-and he rode all over the world-Johnny earned a reputation as an honest jock who always gave his horse a good ride. He was up on Count Fleet when that great runner took the Kentucky Derby in 1943; he was piloting Noor when that Irish-bred fighter got his nose in front of Citation to win the San Juan Capistrano Handicap. Today he owns a modest California mansion- modest, that is, for a millionaire jockey-for a time he had a 500-acre Nevada ranch and he followed the ponies around the circuit...