Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turbulent spring of 1946, when the U.S. was paralyzed by a railroad strike, Harry Truman stormed into Congress and gave Alexander Fell Whitney, co-leader of the strike, one of the savagest verbal rawhidings ever dealt a private citizen by a President of the U.S. With that, he broke the strike. Beaten and embittered, Al Whitney swore that he would use his union's last penny to humiliate and defeat Truman. "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk," he bellowed...
...last week the door to the President's Oval Study swung open and Al Whitney entered...
Born. To James Roosevelt, 40, and Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 32, his second wife: their first daughter, third child (he also has a son and daughter by first wife Betsey Gushing, now Mrs. John Hay Whitney); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anna Eleanor (after her paternal grandmother). Weight...
...Enfant's eye. This week Washington's National Gallery proudly exhibited "its first full-length portrait from Van Dyck's English period." The portrait, a sparkling evocation of the foppish Duc de Guise, was a New Year's gift from New York Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. That made the 1,019th painting the National Gallery has been given since it opened its doors in 1941 (it has only found it necessary to buy one painting in that time). It also clearly established the National Gallery's Van Dyck collection (14 paintings) as the world...
Right next door to Manhattan's well-heeled Whitney Museum (see above) is the Clay Club, a converted stable which is one of the nation's few sculpture galleries. The Club's annual group exhibition last week included two especially talented-and all but unknown-modern sculptors...