Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KAHN, JR. '37 seems to peer through The New Yorker logo's snooty and nostalgic lorgnette at sooty skyscrapers. To Kahn, the late multimillionaire Jock Whitney "epitomized, in a world of increasing egalitarianism, the vanishing patrician. "The era of the robber barons, that period of freewheeling economic exploitation that made the Whitneys rich, is over, says Kahn--wistfully, it seems. Hamburger sales under gold plastic arches make tycoons now. The world is a Kroc...
Kahn laces his account of aristocracy with anecdotes drawn indiscriminately from Whitney's "tidy and voluminous files "Whenever Jock is on the verge of distinguishing himself, Kahn tells us what the man had for dinner, Before leasing for England to serve as the American ambassador, for instance, Jock bought $1.078.99 worth of wine from Nelson Rockefeller...
Work remaining on Briggs Cage includes cleaning up, furnishing locker rooms and installing fixtures, construction foreman William Whitney said yesterday...
...when a weaker but hungrier team from Princeton bested the newly crowned national champs in their home court at Hemenway, 4-3. Not about to be taken by surprise again, the racquetwomen showed why they belong on top by whipping a Yale squad gunning for an upset at Payee Whitney Gym in New Haven Saturday...
...NOTEBOOK: Yale's Payne Whitney Gym has been kind to the Crimson this season. The site of the Howe Cup championships two weeks ago, the New Haven facility has now seen Harvard knock off the numbers two, three and four teams in the country a total of four times all by scores...