Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibition by the censors because of their controversial and/or questionable material, and it was on the basis of the ban of "Miss Julie" that the Brattle and its lawyers fought down the Massachusetts Sunday censorship law which was declared unconstitutional on July 6, 1955. (Brattle Films v. Otis M. Whitney...
...JOHN B. WHITNEY...
...farewell banquet was accorded Financier John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard...
Sharp rises in operating expenses necessitated the increase, which was made "with great reluctance," according to A. Whitney Griswold, president of the university. The step was taken only after all other means of obtaining the necessary revenue had been explored, he explained...
...Whitney Ellsworth '58 was elected president of the Harvard Advocate yesterday. He will replace outgoing John Ratte...