Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January, blue-blooded Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island introduced in the House a bill for repeal of the income tax publicity ("pink slip") clause of the 1934 Revenue Act. Wiseacres dismissed it as a footling political gesture, aimed solely to show J. P. Morgan, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Ogden L. Mills, William Averell Harriman and other members of Republican Bacon's ultra-rich constituency that his heart was in the right place...
...William A. Clark prize went to Eugene Speicher for his famed portrait of a blacksmith, Red Moore, a familiar headliner of the Whitney Museum show of four months ago (TIME, Dec. 10). Other widely known pictures: Guy Pène du Bois' Sunburned Nude; William J. Glackens' Soda Fountain (TIME, March 11); John Steuart Curry's Line Storm (TIME, Dec. 24); Bernard Karfiol's Seated Nude. More of a novelty was a Renoiresque Girl at the Piano by Frederick Frieseke which won the $1,500 Clark second prize...
Coach Hoople has not yet made up his mind as to which is the first Varsity fifty boat and which is second. The crew stroked by Whitney has more power than that stroked by Eaton but Eaton's is smoother and which will prove the fastest is still a moot point. The seatings follow: stroke, Lawrence V. Eaton '36; 7, Hayden Estey '36; John L. Swasey '35; 5, Edward T. Gignoux '35; 4, John L. Lyman '37; 3, Morris Piaelzer, 2nd '35; 2, Eliot Pierce '36; bow, Robert S. Chafee '36; and cox, Edward T. Barker '37. The other boat...
...CAST Bill, a Harvard man of the right sort George Whitney '37 "Stopper" Carter, a friend of his Charles Bellows '37 Charlotte Peter Jopling '35 Dean Bounce William M. Hunt, II '36 Fish, a Harvard man Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35 Wasp Anderson Page '37 Jake F. Sewall Gardner '37 Dean Surley Robert Grinnell '36 Mrs. Murphy, a goody, one of the best Lawrence, Nichols '35 Mrs. O'Shaughnessey, her crony Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 Mrs. Bounce, nee Wholeworthy Walter Birge '35 Mary Bounce, her daughter Francis E. Johnson '35 Faunce, a Butler Henry Lyman '37 Mrs. Elwell Myron...
...much for himself as he did for the Republican candidate last fall but he does it with ability. Walter Birge as Mrs. Bounce, Charles Bellows as "Stopper" Carter, and Arthur Jones as Fish, also turned in commendable performances. We seem to have forgotten Bill, the hero, but nevertheless, George Whitney leaves little to be desired...