Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Connie Mittendorf, too, may surprise. The Maestro of Payne Whitney considers him one of his greatest competitions. When a job 's got to be done, he just sets out and does it with tremendous spirit. Down at Navy, he came within one second of the record for the 100-yard long-pool race...
...William du Font's Fairy Hill, a 14-to-1 outsider; the rich Santa Anita Derby for three-year-olds; at Arcadia, Calif.'s Santa Anita Park. Winner's take was $45,425. Mrs. Ethel Mars's Military took second & $10,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Ptolemy took third...
President Williams, whose board chair-man and biggest stockholder is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was apparently expressing no more than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...
Because the work of all these men is very well known, the Whitney Museum went to great pains to see that the pictures and drawings honoring them should be comparatively new to the Manhattan art world. Pride of the museum is George Bellows' great canvas of the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Because it had been shown so many times, it was not included in the present exhibition. Borrowed from the Cleveland Museum to take its place was the equally important Stag at Sharkey's. So with the other artists: whenever possible, paintings and drawings were borrowed from collections which...
...time Mr. Atlas was a popular sculptor's model, his clients including James Earle Fraser and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. But his real commercial success dates from 1922 when he started to offer mail-order courses in physiculture. Today he has an office in London as well as Manhattan, claims he has started a total of 500,000 puny people on the road to potent health. Mr. Atlas' formula is "Dynamic Tension" which means pitting one set of muscles against another for exercise instead of using weights, bars, bells, springs...