Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dated March 1943, evidently cut by Parkhurst himself, showed that he had been classified 1-A by his Cambridge draft board, only to end up as a high WPB official. A Senate investigation disclosed that he later resigned from this government position to take a job with the Pratt-Whitney aircraft corporation...
...Goats of the Year were Alexander Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Alvanley Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. * Sample quote of 1946: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. There he sits, motionless, and Mr. Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast...
...Walter S. Franklin '06, Robert S. Gross '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Amory Houghton '21, R. Keith Lane '22, Jacob J. Kaplan '08, Dr. Oliver L. Loring '26,Thomas H. Mahoney '06, J Lawrence Pool '28, Clarence B. Randall '12, Joseph P. Sprang, Jr., '15, Lawrence Terry '22, George Whitney...
...whitney Blayer '45, chairman of the Leverett House Committee, announced last night the election of four additional committee members, bringing the total membership...
Also in Gothic is the Payne-Whitney Gymnasium, a cathedral-like structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...