Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George Jackson Mead, 57, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., aircraft engine designer (he developed the Wasp engine, which provided the basic design for half the power plants used in World War II U.S. warplanes); after long illness; in West Hartford, Conn...
Many a modern student of art who wandered into Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week smiled patronizingly at what he saw. On the walls were more than a hundred paintings and drawings by an almost forgotten U.S. landscapist named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under...
Murfreesboro to Morgan. Henry C. Alexander, 46, was named to the new post of executive vice president of J. P. Morgan & Co., thus got in line to succeed 63-year-old President George Whitney. Born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wall Streeter Alexander graduated from Yale Law School with honors, made a name as a corporation lawyer before joining the famed banking house in 1939. He is an adviser to the Salvation Army, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wearer of the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey...
From the money usually spent on soloists, the Philharmonic's smart Conductor Robert Whitney, urged on by Mayor Charles P. Farnsley, commissioned six new ten-minute works for $500 each by Virgil Thomson, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris, Italy's Gian Francesco Malipiero, Spain's blind Joaquin Rodrigo, Louisville's own Claude Almand. Four of the composers were promised another $500 apiece for conducting their own world premieres...
...Harvard team of Pete Putnam, George Whitney, Bob Clark, and Mike Post qualified for this contest by placing third, behind MIT and Yale, in the Schell Trophy races this fall and by lying for second place with Navy in the Middies' Fall Invitation Regatta...