Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modelled after the late Harry Payne Whitney's famed ''Big Four'' which won the international matches against England in 1909 and coached by the "Big Four's" famed Back, Devereux Milburn, the team that played for the East last week was built around its No. 3, tall, brawny, 27-year-old Winston Guest, second cousin of Britain's Winston Churchill. After last week's game young Winston Guest did not even wait for dinner before rushing to town with his bride, Helena McCann Guest, to tell the New York Young Republican Club...
...black suit, black hat and silver fox fur, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney swept into the chambers of a New York Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan. Trotting at her side was a spindly little girl of 10 who called her "Aunt Gertrude." In an outer room sat the little girl's mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. If Mrs. Whitney noticed that her brother "Reggie's" widow was also dressed in a black suit, black hat and silver fox fur, there was no glance to show...
Thoroughly incensed was Mrs. Whitney. Her sister-in-law had taken a family squabble to court, practically accusing her of kidnapping her own niece, small Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
...other faculty members of the Committee are: Alfred Worcester '78, Henry K. Oliver, Professor Of Hygiene, and Dean Hanford. Undergraduate members: Herman Gundlach '35, Samuel S. Drury '35, and Howard F. Gillette '35. Graduate members: George Whitney '07, Charles P. Curtis, Jr. '14, and William Edmunds '00. William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, is chairman of the Committee, and Henry W. Clark '23 is secretary...