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...middle of a round of golf one day last spring, Capitalist John Hay Whitney and Crooner Bing Crosby began to talk about-of all things-frozen orange juice concentrate. "Jock" Whitney thought he had hold of a good business proposition, and by the time they had got to the 19th Bing was all ears. Last week the Whitney-dominated Vacuum Foods Corp. (Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate) announced the deal they made...
...immediate paper profit for Crosby was around $138,000. The chances for long-range profit looked even better, for Jock Whitney has shown a sharp eye for picking and financing winners.* Whitney got into the frozen juice business through National Research Corp., a war-boomed company that licenses the process by which Vacuum Foods concentrates and freezes the juice. When mixed with three parts of water, the frozen juice is the closest thing yet to fresh-squeezed juice...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 42, hell-for-leather socialite horsewoman; and Dr. E. Cooper Person Jr., 38, surgery professor; she for the second time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay-"Jock"- Whitney, now married to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt), he for the first; in Upperville...
...week in the first race at Jamaica,'applause pattered down from the stands. Eddie sat up straight, took off his cap and waved it high. He rated the cheer, even if it was a pleasant surprise. Three days before, he had won the Kentucky Derby?and become the first jock in history to win the Derby four times. He was now after another honor: to be the first to win horse racing's Big Three (Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) twice...
...Grandsons John R. ("Jock") McLean and Edward B. McLean, and Mamie Spears Reynolds, granddaughter of the late Evalyn Walsh McLean, Publisher McLean's daughter...