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With entries at 8 p.m. today, the University Squash Tournament has already attracted over 70 aspirants, varsity coach Jock Barnaby announced yesterday...
Jordan stated that he meant last week to emphasize the good things in athletics when he advocated greater emphasis on sports. "The main proposition should be that a boy comes out of college better than he went in. Jock Sutherland of Pitt always saw that his boys got their education and that's what all coaches should do. There is a good side to scholarship football...
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...
...Higginson rather than loaf. At the suggestion of his department boss, 25-year-old Whitney plunked a $500,000 stake into Williams' fight, enabled him to win the battle. Williams has run the company ever since, but says: "I always take all major decisions to Jock...
...John Hay Whitneys' pictures, which top the show, are magnificent examples of such modern French greats as Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Rousseau, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse. "Jock" Whitney, 47, has an eye for painting to equal his eye for horseflesh and business investments, and his vast fortune amply accommodates his tastes. The Whitneys have a full-time curator, Art Historian John Rewald, to help with their collection, but Whitney decides on all purchases himself. "We've bought what struck us as being particularly beautiful," he says...