Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubtful about returning to the academic life. But his fatherly former freshman adviser, Chairman Whitney Oates of the classics department, had no intention of letting Goheen out of Princeton's sight. He saw to it that his former student received one of the first four Woodrow Wilson Fellowships designed to attract young talent into teaching. In 1948, Goheen got his Ph.D., settled back into the pleasant routine of faculty life...
Dozier is a senior member of a group of Texas painters who have evolved what Manhattan's Whitney Museum Associate Director Lloyd Goodrich calls "abstract art based on the character of Texas landscape." Texas born and bred, Dozier got his start doing PWAP murals, then put in seven years of study under Boardman Robinson at Colorado Springs' Fine Arts Center: "I must have done 6,000 sketches of mining towns, rocks and the human figure...
...teacher, his students found him intense and scintillating in his presentation of "meaty" material. His lectures, they said, were a torrent of vital information that left students with aching writing hands when they left the lecture room. "He's one of the ablest men in the whole damm profession," Whitney J. "Mike" Oates, chairman of the department said once of Goheen, who was his freshman advisor when the new president first came over from Lawrenceville...
London: Aging Sportsman and Financier (Chase Manhattan Bank) Winthrop Aldrich, 71, will retire, probably to be replaced by a younger sportsman and financier (and Eisenhower bridge partner), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
Yale will require an $98,000,000 increase in endowment to meet its present needs, President A. Whitney Griswold said in a report to the Alumni earlier this week. His estimate was originally presented in a report of the University Council last June at the close of the 1955-56 fiscal year...