Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team in the East, if not the whole country, is capable of beating the Yale varsity swimming team the Yale freshman swimming team. While the Harvard varsity and freshman teams are in New Haven today they will swim against these two squads in the exhibition pool of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
...Michael, who is editor of the New Republic; his actress-sister Beatrice, star of the current Broadway hit, The Innocents; brother Whitney, managing chief executive of British Overseas Airways Corp.; and their mother, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight Elmhirst...
Collectors, critics and fellow artists crowded Manhattan's Whitney Museum one night last week to pay homage to a somber, solitary painter who stands among the nation's best. It was the opening of Edward Hopper's first full-scale retrospective show in 17 years. On the walls were 171 drawings, etchings, drypoints, watercolors and oils-enough to dizzy gallerygoers on a first visit and delight them on a second or third...
Some visitors to the Whitney last week felt that they were not seeing pictures so much as remembering places-and that their memories had never been more clear...
Last week the corporation made its choice: vigorous, bumper-jawed 43-year-old Yale history Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold. A Yaleman himself (class of '29), Griswold had started out with literary ambitions.* But after a summer stint in a Wall Street brokerage office, he went back to Yale to teach. Since then he has been a witty, popular instructor in the departments of English and history. In 1947 he became one of Yale's youngest full professors, meanwhile turned out a brace of scholarly, readable books (The Far Eastern Policy of the United States, Farming and Democracy...