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Dates: during 1920-1929
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dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Loening amphibian airplane. A race will be held at Mitchell Field on June 23 when college men, in their own or borrowed planes, will race for money. The race will be conducted under the auspices of the National Aeronautic Association with these judges: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Reginald L. Brooks, Secretary of War for Aviation F. Trubee Davison, Thomas Hitchcock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Matters | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Louise Whitney Martin, daughter of Edward Sanford Martin, a founder of Life, of Manhattan; to Edward S. Blagden of Manhattan, stockbroker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...pound class--Whitney (Y) defeated Adam Palaza '31, fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS WREST FIRST WIN FROM ELI | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...other members of the Governing Board, besides Judge Cabot are: H. W. Bragdon '28, vice-president of the Union; E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor and chairman of the Board of Tutors in History and Literature; Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University; Mitchell Gratwick '22 and W. I. Nichols '26, assistant deans of the University; L. T. Grimm '29, chairman of the Debating Union; and Davison Sommers '26 and W. S. Stone '26, secretaries of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION RENEWS OLD DINNER TRADITION | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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