Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with aircraft enginemaker Pratt & Whitney...
...WHITNEY New York City...
...WHITNEY STINE...
Curator Barr was particularly proud of his two new Matisses (donated by John Hay Whitney and Samuel Marx). One, called Goldfish and Sculpture, he had been hoping to get for years. The other was The Moroccans (see color page), a 9-ft.-wide canvas that Matisse painted in 1916 and kept for himself through his life. Barr, a careful and scholarly sort, unhesitatingly describes it as "the greatest Matisse this side of Moscow...
...Pratt & Whitney's silencer has not yet been tested in flight. For actual installation in airliners, it will be made of several telescoping cylinders fitting around the tail pipe, and a segmented cone that can be closed or opened. When the airplane takes off within earshot of neighbors, the cylinders will be extended and the cone closed. The mighty stream of hot gases will be broken into small and comparatively quiet jets. After the aircraft is high in the air, the cylinders will be drawn back into the engine's nacelle and the cone will be opened. Then...