Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York banquet celebrating the 100th year of Harvard-Yale rowing Monday night, President Conant praised the strictly amateur status of crew, and Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles traced the influence of the Northwest on rowing. President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale and ex-Eli coach Ed Leader also spoke...
...living. All winter I hibernate and paint pictures to please myself. If I sell more pictures, I paint less houses." Santo manages to finish 12 to 15 canvases a year and has sold paintings to half a dozen museums, including Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney...
Last week the airline also had good news for the British government, which owns it, and which has been stuck with yearly losses as big as $33 million. BOAC Managing Director Whitney Straight reported that in the fiscal year ended in March, BOAC would probably show a net profit of about ?500,000 ($1,400,000), the first profit in its history...
...Grandson of William C. Whitney, Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, who built a $100 million fortune from trains, trams and tobacco. Whitney's father, Willard, was a Morgan partner who founded the New Republic, which Whitney's brother, Michael, still hopefully runs...
...Kudos. That was another medal for Whitney Straight's already heavily decorated chest. Straight, who was born in New York,*raised in England, and became a British citizen in 1936, was an R.A.F. pilot during World War II. He shot down at least three planes, won both the Military Cross for valor and the Distinguished Flying Cross, toward war's end helped run Britain's Transport Group as an air commodore. When he took on the BOAC job five years ago, even his friends thought he was showing bravery far beyond the call of duty. BOAC...