Word: whitney
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Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real...
What comes after abstraction? The question is probably still premature, but for trend-sifters who look to the younger generation for clues. Manhattan this week offers possibilities by the dozen. The Whitney Museum of American Art, in its first "Young America" show, is displaying 121 works by 30 artists under 35; the Museum of Modern Art, in its "Recent American Acquisitions," includes works by some two dozen younger painters; the Jewish Museum will open its first younger-artist group show with 58 works by 23 artists developing the theme, "The New York School-Second Generation...
...three of Ivyland gathered at Princeton to hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive...
...HAVEN, March 2--In spite of the absence of star guard Johnny Lee, a powerful Yale basketball team proved too much for a slow-starting Harvard team here in Payne-Whitney Gymnasium tonight. Except for a brief three-minute stretch late in the game, the Elis were never behind, winning by a comfortable eight-point margin...
...Yale quintet, stronger in every essential than the Crimson, will be highly favored tonight to ruin Harvard's six game winning streak and retain its undisputed possession of first place in the league race, in the Payne Whitney...