Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 68, matriarch of U. S. polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
...most men require to learn to score. An amateur bridge player, expert enough to play in professional tournaments, much too good for most of his friends at lawn tennis, he belongs to the New York Racquet Club, plays court-tennis there and at the $250,000 court which Payne Whitney built at Manhasset and on which Payne Whitney died in 1927. Ogden Phipps's grandfather was Andrew Carnegie's partner, Henry Phipps...
...Newmarket sale. Two years before she had bought Golden Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget's father. Lord Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. John Hay ("Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National...
...more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale in 1926 and by the time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson & Co. in Manhattan he was already a director of Great Northern Paper. While answering the buzzer...
...Drunk Swell, John Cromwell '36; Leonard the Learned, Arthur Szathmary '37; Bernard the Brave, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Percy the Prosperous, Robert L. McKee '37; Egbert the Eccentric, Paul Killiam, Jr. '37; Lewis the Loving, James W. Tower '35; Albert the Acquisitive, John Michael '35; Herold the Helpful, Whitney M. Cook '36; Inebriated Philosophers. Stephen Greene '37 and William M. Hunt, 2d '36; Draper, Hotel Manager and Publican, William H. Ledgard '36; Girl with the Mask, Betty Anne Noland; Girl with the Ring, Lois Hall; Girl with the Ambitions, Miriam Hurwitt; Girl with the Box, Jean Goodale; Elderly Relative...