Word: whitney
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Ceramics. Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora* wrote Roman Pliny of the ceramic statues of the Etruscans. Far from sacred but often fine were the 142 examples of U. S. ceramic art with which the Whitney Museum opened its season this week. Assembled last year by the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts for showings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and England, the collection included sculptures in terra cotta and enamel by the artists who have revived ceramics as a fine art in the U. S.-Waylande Gregory of Metuchen, N. J., Henry Varnum Poor of New York, Cleveland's Russell Barnett Aitken...
Neighbors and contemporary scions of the No. 1 family of the U. S. turf, 33-year-old John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and his 38-year-old first cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney have had to learn how to do the same things all their lives without suggesting rivalry. While Cousin Sonny maintained the famed racing establishment he inherited from his father, Harry Payne Whitney, Cousin Jock built up a stable of racers equal to the great Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested...
...years ago Jock Whitney organized the Greentree polo team around his 10-goal neighbor, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., proceeded to win the U. S. Open Championship twice. Although Sonny learned polo not only from Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. but from his own polo-pioneering father (U. S. Internationalist 1909-11-13), his playing has developed more slowly. This year, however, when Cousin Jock determined that Greentree should be the first team to win three Open Championships in a row, Sonny gave him cause for alarm. Sonny, with his Old Westbury team built around the other current U. S. 10-goaler, Stewart...
...succeeded remarkably well in holding back Greentree's Tommy Hitchcock, Pete Bostwick and Gerald Balding. Cousin Jock was less successful. In the third chukker Sonny suddenly cut in, took the ball away from Hitchcock, swung his mallet. Smack! The ball scooted between the goal posts for the only Whitney-made score of the match. By the end of the seventh chukker, Old Westbury, with the aid of Mike Phipps's five goals, was leading Greentree...
...program, Mormons were at the same time asked to pray and work. Pithy, ominous Mormon advice went out to all Church members from the First Counselor in the potent, three-man First Presidency-plump J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid a plague. Let us live...