Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commissioned a captain in the Army Air Corps, multimillionaire Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney resigned his high, long-handled* good-will post in Washington, to report soon for service duty in Intelligence...
...Architecture, Harvard; Hugh O'N. Hencken, curator of European Archeology, Harvard; Christopher La-Farge, Phi Beta Kappa poet, June, 1942; Thomas W. Lamont '92, chairman of the Executive Committee of J. P. Morgan and Company, New York City; Stephen Luce, associate editor, "American Journal of Archaeology"; and Edward A. Whitney, former associate professor of History and Literature, Harvard and member of the staff of the Huntington Library for research in Renaissance History...
...Manhattan's Whitney Museum hung 24 crayon sketches by Ferriss of the finest buildings the U.S. has put up in the past decade. Looming out of the mist like Manhattan at dawn were mighty grain elevators, dizzy-deep dams, steel and glass factories streamlined toward infinity, an outdoor amphitheater scooped like some monumental sculpture...
They saw the richest Derby of all time. Reason: it was the "openest" field in years and nearly every owner of a likely candidate was willing to risk the final $500 starting fee. However, the crowd settled on a favorite: Mrs. Payne Whitney's entry of Devil Diver and Shut Out. Devil Diver had not finished out of the money in 13 starts. Shut Out, son of the late, great Equipoise, had been worthy and unworthy of his name. Eddie Arcaro, Mrs. Whitney's contract rider who was itching to win his third Derby, was hard...
...smartest jockey in the business soon found that he was on the wrong horse. When he started to make his move, the Diver didn't seem to have what it takes. Shut Out did. With Jockey Wayne Wright up, the lesser regarded of the Whitney pair was up with the front runners from the drop of the flag. On the home turn, when the pacemaker, With Regards, began to falter, Shut Out shot in front. Then, in the last quarter, standing off the challenges of Alsab and Valdina Orphan, Shut Out saved the day for Mrs. Whitney. Devil Diver...