Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By the late Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: to Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, $2,500,000; to charities, the residue of her estate...
...Their second choice is Requested, the Texas colt that beat Alsab in Florida's Flamingo Stakes last February and beat Apache, pride of Broadway, in New York's Wood Memorial last week. Kentucky hard-boots like the looks of a pair of colts owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: Shut Out, a worthy son of the late great Equipoise, and Devil Diver, rated the most promising Whitney youngster since Twenty Grand. Some diehards still think that Warren Wright's in-again, out-again Sun Again will be another Whirlaway...
...Private school headmasters usually hang on until a ripe o'l age, but Browne & Nichols (Cambridge, Mass.) lost one last week not on account of his old age but on account of his youth. The Army claimed Browne & Nichols' Headmaster Geoffrey Whitney Lewis. Undaunted, the school elected in his place another youngster: 36-year-old Assistant Professor Warren Seyfert of Harvard, which is just next door. A teacher in Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Seyfert is rated one of the faculty's ablest men. He believes that New England preparatory schools are still too hidebound...
Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...
...first half of Math 2 repeats a lot of the work covered in A, and a good student can almost get away without it. Kaplansky is good for this and Whitney is easy...