Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hockey tickets are gone, both here and in New Haven. For the basketball contest, the H. A. A. has written to request a block of seats which may be available to the visiting contingent on arrival, although nothing definite can be promised. Seating facilities in Yale's Payne Whitney Gym, scene of the court battle, are so limited that many an Eli will be barred at the gates...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Lucretius' On Nature. Speakers: Princeton Greek Professor Whitney J. Gates, British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee...
...also began with an impressive list of editors, a worthy mission and a rich uncle. U.N. World originally had the backing of three rich men's sons, Nelson Rockefeller, Jock Whitney and Michael Straight-but Rockefeller and Whitney backed out. The money now comes out of the gold-lined pockets of the ElmhirstStraight family, which has patiently paid the New Republic's deficits throughout its 32-year existence. (Rich young Michael Straight is also currently shooting the works to see that the New Republic's new Editor Henry Wallace* gets all that money can buy.) Unlike...
...Letter Man Morris Kantor is one of the select group of artists whose pictures hang in all three big Manhattan museums: the conservative Metropolitan, the middle-minded Whitney, and the freewheeling, streamlined Museum of Modern Art. These diverse honors make Kantor a three-letter man in U.S. painting, but not necessarily an All-American; they are as much a tribute to the diversity as to the quality...
Object Lesson. What would happen to the U.S. economy in 1947 was inextricably tied up with a bigger long-run problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...