Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capsule, Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week gave gallerygoers a history of 20th Century U.S. art. With 176 paintings and sculptures by Whitney-nurtured artists, it was staging a memorial exhibit for Juliana Force, until her death last year the museum's hardworking, fast-talking director...
Teamed with socialite Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force did as much as anyone to pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred...
...Among them: Mervyn LeRoy, David Loew, Donald Douglas, Henry R. Luce, Leonard Firestone, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Walter Brunmark...
...week's end Whitney came to a decision. By a 2-to-1 majority, the townspeople voted the bench back...
...with its four Rolls-Royce Ghost jet engines looking sleek and slim on its moderately swept-back wings. Its claimed cruising speed is 500 m.p.h. at 35-40,000 feet. At this speed and altitude, each Ghost develops thrust equivalent to 10,500 h.p. The Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp reciprocating engines that power the DC-6 develop only about 2,100 h.p. at full throttle...