Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powered by a 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engine, has a high speed of more than 400 m.p.h. in level flight, has done an incredible 680 in a dive.* Although it had been widely publicized, before Pearl Harbor, as a definitive U.S. answer to the need of high-altitude fighters, P-47's altitude performance was not mentioned by OEM, therefore could not be mentioned by the press. But OEM did give other details...
Died. Silvio Coucci, 27, jockey hailed as "The second Earl Sande" in 1932; of a leap or fall from a hotel window; in Fayetteville, N.C. A rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney's stables, he rode 216 winners in 1934, was the second-ranking U.S. jockey...
...when she reaches 21, returned to the public eye with a splash of party-giving last spring, for the first time since 1934. That year she was the center of a long custody battle between her mother, Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and her aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Through last summer and fall she was photographed with a series of escorts that included Cinemactors Bruce Cabot, Randolph Scott, George Montgomery and di Cicco. Her fiancé has been married once before: to the late buxom, blonde Cinemactress Thelma Todd, who died of undetermined causes in 1935, a year after their...
...Richard Whitney, ex-Stock Exchange president paroled from Sing Sing, turned up at National Fireworks, Inc. (explosives) in West Hanover, Mass., working "as a beginner...
...Morgan lent three Holbeins. The Metropolitan Museum sent down El Greco's View of Toledo and John Singer Sargent's portrait of Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...