Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Task Force D. Assistant Prosecutor Lieut. Harris Whitney, U.S.N., took up the case of scar-faced Ernst Kaltenbrunner, successor to bloody Hangman Reinhard Heydrich as the Gestapo's No. 2 man. Sample charges: ordering the murder of civilians in occupied countries, devising a system for selecting gas-chamber candidates, encouraging the lynching of Allied airmen...
...Mortimer, sister of Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs. John Hay Whitney (ex-Mrs. Jimmy Roosevelt), again nosed out Mrs. Byron Foy, who sat firmly in second place, followed by Mrs. Millicent Rogers. Notable absence: Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, last year's third. Notable presence: Valentina, dress designer. The rest of the top ten, all past placers: Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, the Duchess of Windsor, Louise Macy Hopkins (whose husband Harry is chairman of Manhattan's garment industry), Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Mrs. Robert Sarnoff, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
...Americans understand the game. The New York Times's Allison Danzig claims to be one of them. Of a swanky Long Island doubles tourney he wrote last week: "In the opening game [John Hay Whitney] . . . standing near the penthouse on the service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service...
Before World War II, it was common practice for U.S. artists either to tout or tear apart "The American Scene." Last week two big annual shows (the Whitney Museum's "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" and the "120th Annual" of the conservative National Academy of Design) seemed to say that times have changed...
Prior to its use as a dormitory this fall, Kirkland, built in 1912, was introduced to the House system in 1931, The first House Master was Edward A. Whitney '17, who held the position until 1935. His successor, Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, who has held the post from that date, will new return to his other academic duties...