Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, the year's best art exhibition had been the work of a Vienna-born American named Henry Koerner (TIME, April 28). In Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week, Koerner stole the show again. The Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting was largely a dance of painted shadows: pictures that were either flatly abstract or academically pictorial. By contrast, Koerner's dramatic microcosm of modern life, which he called Vanity Fair, had the power of a compressed reality...
...winter sports will climax their seasons on March 13 in a series of contest with Yale, according to final schedules released by the H.A.A. The Varsity swimming slate includes nine regular meets, five away from home, winding up with the Eli tilt at the Payne-Whitney cathedral in New Haven...
...Omaha, the railroad trainmen's President A. F. Whitney spun like a pinwheel. After Harry Truman broke the railroad strike in 1946, Whitney had bellowed: "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." Now he came out for Truman in '48. Said he: "My good, Christian parents taught me it is a good thing to forgive and forget...
Rita Hayworth, who had been working in the chill outdoors in costumes best suited to her talent, spent a spell in California's Mt. Whitney Hospital, with neuralgia...
Follow the Parkway for 15.4 miles to Whitney Avenue, turn right and circle under the bridge following Route 10a to Edwards Street, then Routes 5 and 15 until Sherman Avenue. Turn left on Sherman Avenue to Edgewood Avenue, where the official parking space is located...