Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Math A, for those with particular aptitude in the subject, Kaplansky, who is seldom boring and gets a lot across, and MacLane are excellent. For those who are just taking it for distribution or other reasons, Beatley and Whitney are the best...
Wealthy Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney decided to tear down the Harry Payne Whitney house-one of the last great mansions left on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue. Her husband willed it to her at his death in 1930 but she rarely lived there. A limestone and marble pile with ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck...
...decision by Judge Vincent L. Leibell in U.S. District Court sticks. The suit, brought by three small stockholders, has been dragging on for five and a half years. The men who must pay are Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Donaldson Brown, Junius S. Morgan, George Whitney, James D. Mooney, Albert Bradley, John Thomas Smith and Seward Prosser...
...ability to wear clothes in keeping with one's budget" is the Fashion Academy's chief requirement for a place on its annual "best-dressed" list. Among last week's winners: Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney (bride of "Jock," heir to $27,000,000), Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, Cinestar Paulette Goddard...
Today Bachelor Kartveli, like other top-drawer ideamen in aviation, is busy about next year's design. But sometimes he goes out on the field to watch his 2,000-h.p. (Pratt & Whitney) Thunderbolt in the air. He's proud of the beast. "A nice plane," he admits, in an accent tinged with French, rather than Russian. "But she's too big." Airmen who fly the beast could argue with him, but they don't. They know it's an esthete's criticism...