Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a campus monthly pointed with pride to famed alumni (but few of the famed alumni point with pride to their campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...
...this basis, Reade has already got New Yorkers, including John Hay Whitney, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Cole Porter, to subscribe from $62.40 to $93.60 each for year-round reservations. For their money, they will be able to see movies (but not first-run ones) without having to wait in line.* The fancy prices also cover the cost of 1) roomy love seats, 2) hearing aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies...
Since plans call for using all parts of the theater during various scenes, the lights will be of "major importance." Committee co-chairmen will be Thorndike Saville, Jr. '46, and Whitney L. Frye...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Yale's Eugene O'Neill Jr., Princeton's Whitney J. Gates and PM's Max Lerner take apart Sophocles' Antigone...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney turned up at a chichi-choked benefit in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel wearing a ready-to-wear number, and copped first prize (a bottle of champagne) as the best-dressed woman of the evening. "Shall I take it off?" cried Mrs. Whitney-and did. But what came off was just an outer skirt. It turned out that you could also wear it as a hood or a cape. Financier Whitney said he was proud...