Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That fact was made encouragingly clear last week by another big roundup: the Whitney Museum's annual exhibition of American painting and sculpture in Manhattan. There, too, abstract expressionism ruled by force of numbers. But among the 184 exhibits were a handful of pictures calculated to put the new princes of art fashion on their mettle and to prove that the great traditions of American painting still run broad and deep...
Harris, however, is not alone in proposing increased tuitions. A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University has suggested that the student be charged more nearly the full cost of his education. Goheen specifically rejected this argument...
...which he expresses himself and for his imaginatively disreputable wardrobe. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), slightly stooped man who is bald but manages to look shaggy in spite of it, he ambles into class apparently costumed to stalk moose, was once accused by Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, when they were both young instructors, of aging his sport coats in a manure pile. He has been known, on a winter day, to wear a neckpiece of red flannel underwear...
...students are more apathetic than intrigued. The case was admittedly slightly different two years ago when their reaction was one of hostility to the suggestion of Arthur Howe, Jr., Dean of Admissions, that the College consider accepting women. The protests against co-education were so vociferous that President A. Whitney Griswold felt obliged to state that "there is not the remotest possibility of its taking place at Yale," in the near future...
...rounds with luscious Lady Beatty and the London press (TIME, Nov. 10), started sparring with New York Journal-American Photographer Melvin Finkelstein. The photographer claimed that Sinatra tried to run him down with a rented Cadillac limousine outside Manhattan's Harwyn Club. As Sinatra left with Model Nan Whitney, Finkelstein got set to take a picture, whereupon Frankie cried to his chauffeur: "Get him! Kill that bastard." Scoffed Sinatra: "What I read in the papers must have happened to three other guys...