Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joan Whitney Payson...
...Sonny Whitney...
...Jock Whitney's racing career started in 1929 when he financed Jack Anthony, famed British trainer and oldtime jockey, the only man alive who has won the Grand National thrice, to start a stable of steeplechasers for him at Wantage, England. They almost won the Grand National on their first try but Easter Hero, leading a record field of 66, twisted a plate (which now hangs on the door of his stall at Langollen), limped home second. In the U. S., Jock Whitney began to build his string after his marriage to utterly horsy Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus...
...family tradition for Jock Whitney to row at Yale; he stroked the 1926 junior varsity. When his father died, he had just finished a year at Oxford. Since then-though he belongs definitely to the more conservative branch of the family, in whom the prudent Payne blood runs strong-he has begun to blossom out as befits a young man with a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. Readily accessible in his office at No. 14 Wall St., he is not suspicious or wary of people who come to sell him things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways...
Aviation is another Jock Whitney enthusiasm, but chiefly as an adjunct to polo and racing. Greentree is his polo team and he is a four-goal man, as good a back as hard-riding Pete Bostwick is a forward. Last summer he built a new field, carved out of the side of a hill on the Whitney place at Manhasset. L. I. Too heavy to ride his own steeplechasers in races, he rides to hounds, shoots, plays squash, flies his own cabin-plane, which was last year nearly destroyed by fire in its hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name...