Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Common Census. In Douglas, Ark., Lee Edward Whitney, 84, decided to move away, changed the town's population from...
...Bois was an honor student in Robert Henri's pre-World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror...
...strange, ungainly bird, has been flying for two years. Single-seated, powered by one Pratt & Whitney J57 Jet engine, it has a wing so long that outrigger wheels must support it on the ground. This configuration gives the U-2 little dash but great lift and good performance at 60,000 ft. and above...
Yale's Ralph Henry Gabriel, 68. Sterling Professor of History, and deveoper in 1931 of a pioneer course in American thought and civilization. To such students as A. Whitney Griswold. now Yale's president, Gabriel presented a systematic, thought-prodding evaluation of the history of ideas in the U.S. Writing summers in a shack in the New Hampshire woods, he has filled a shelf with basic texts in American history, including his widely read The Course of American Democratic Thought. He lit few Roman candles while lecturing, nevertheless attracted up to 400 students to his classes...
...good many toolmakers want to see more proof. Said an officer of the Atlantic Machine Tool Works serving the Hartford area: "Sure, the tool business in Connecticut is looking up. When you are flat on your back, where else can you look but up?" Pratt & Whitney Co.'s machine-tool plant at West Hartford says that employment is still off 25% from September. Not until general business improves will the tool business really...