Word: whitney
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Besides Otis M. Whitney, Commissioner of Public Safety, who twice refused the Brattle's petition for a Sunday license, the case is also directed against Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry. The judgement of neither man is questioned. At stake is the constitutionality of the rights of the Public Safety Commissioner to grant or refuse Sunday licenses within the Commonwealth...
Safety Commissioner Whitney used this law when he refused the Brattle's application to show "Miss Julie" last February. When the Cambridge theater reapplied to show the movie on a later Sunday in February, the petition was again refused on the grounds that a public showing would not be in keeping with proper observance of the Lord...
...projects ever started by U.S. foundations, few have had more pleasant results than the John Hay Whitney Foundation's program for visiting professors in the humanities. In the last two years the foundation has picked out twelve retired scholars, paid them an average of $7,500 a year, sent them off to continue their careers for a year on small liberal-arts campuses that might not otherwise have been able to afford such special talent. The scheme proved so appealing, in fact, that last year the New York Foundation joined the Whitney in a similar program. This week...
With such samples of success, the New York and Whitney Foundations hope to inspire the hiring of other retired professors. The Whitney Foundation has a list of 350 scholars willing and able to return to work. All in all, says former Columbia College Dean Harry J. Carman, chairman of the foundation's Division of Humanities, it is quite a reservoir-"which too often goes unused...
...minimum." Whitney and Mayor John Foley as
"inconsistent with [the Sabbath's] due observance.'' In neighboring
Boston. RKO Pictures Corp. distributors fought a similar blue law ban
on Sunday showings of The French Line.