Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goulds has been in New England since 1635, and he is related to the Lowell, Lawrence, Storer, and Vroom families. Harvard was the appropriate college for him, and he graduated "magna cum difficultate" along with Conrad Aiken, Gluyas Williams, Howard Lindsay, and his "most distinguished classmate," Richard Whitney...
...sustained her courage ("We can't lose. He is so strong and clean and brave"). Katharine Forbes, "frightened but calm," kept busy as a doctor's assistant, trying to hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 20, poor little rich girl whose legal troubles began at ten in a noisy custody squabble between her socialite mother (Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) and her sculptress aunt (the late Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), planned another trip to court. This time she will ask a formal separation from her nightclub-brawling, ex-Army-lieutenant husband, Pat di Cicco, 35, actors' agent. Married at 17, Gloria once observed: "What can one say of a first marriage except that it's wonderful?" Approaching her 21st birthday and a $4.5 million inheritance, she broke the news...
...Crimson have been invited to the frozen tennis courts of the Radcliffe dormitory quadrangle tomorrow evening from 8 to 12 o'clock, to participate in a skating party sponsored by the Radcliffe News. Highlight of the evening will be an exhibition of figure skating by Miss Margaret Whitney, Radcliffe '47, of St. Paul, Minnesota. Miss Whitney will be supported by several experienced skaters...
...Hara; dancing at El Morocco with Dan Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend at San Simeon lasted six weeks because the old man could not bear to let her go. From the bed she slept in, she could stare at a painting on the ceiling and listen to the lion roar in the private...