Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitney Blair...
Corsair was something new in combat aircraft: a big, rugged fighter powered with a 2,000-h.p. engine (Pratt & Whitney). Designed as a carrier craft, it is fast enough for land operations, will outspeed most land-based craft now in combat. Maneuverable, and swift on the climb, it also has plenty of altitude performance, develops its best speed (better than 400 m.p.h.) above 20,000 feet, can fight above...
Married. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 37, ex-wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney; and Corporal Josiah Marvel Jr., 37, ex-politico; in Wilmington. A Democrat, he missed the Governorship of Delaware by 700 votes...
...world's records that swimmers strive for, only one has defied a generation of speedsters: the 51 sec. for 100 yards (free style), set by Johnny Weissmuller in 1927. Last week, in Yale's Payne Whitney pool, that mark too was washed away-by a 19-year-old Yale freshman named Alan Ford...
...Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...