Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...
...that, the New York Stock Exchange failed to discipline Hayden, Stone on this evidence but instead exonerated it of wrongdoing. Miss Roberts told of having lost "several hundreds of thousands of dollars because of this sort of thing." She spoke caustically of "the assured impudence of Mr. Whitney's dishonesty." Unwilling to re-open this old feud, which had hitherto escaped publicity, was Hayden, Stone & Co. last week. They implied that the suit had been won on technicalities, that Miss Roberts was a "bad loser" as well as a woman who would leave no Hayden, Stones unturned...
...coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last week he got a telegram. He thought the judges, including Architects Ely Jacques Kahn and Whitney Warren, had decided. Fran tically he jumped into a taxi, urged the driver to speed. They were arrested. At midnight Richard Granelli reached the Institute at last, heard the news that he had won the $4.000 prize, giving him 18 months at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, another twelve...
...world's finest collections of sporting art. It includes Thomas Eakins' famed prizefight picture, Taking the Count; Frederick Remington's picture of an early football game; a pictorial history of baseball since the Civil War; hundreds of prints, statues. Donor Garvan named it the Whitney Collection, in honor of two late famed Yale sportsmen, Harry Payne Whitney and his brother Payne...