Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely since John Adams set up the U.S.'s first ministry in London had a U.S. ambassador-designate faced more difficult diplomatic beginnings than John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 52. In the bitter aftermath of Suez, Jock Whitney, nominated last week to succeed Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, faces the awesome task of restoring full U.S.-British concord and confidence in a country split by a new sense of its own rights and wrongs, in which the U.S. is the most convenient scapegoat...
...Manhattan) in 1949. He succeeds J. Stewart Baker, who continues as chairman of the executive committee and as one of Chase Manhattan's two top executive officers (the other: Chairman John J. Mc-Cloy). David Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Jr. and nephew of former Chase Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, was born in New York City, educated at Harvard ('36), with postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1940. After a spell as secretary to New York's rambunctious Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and three...
...Griff Winthrop, Clifton, Stu Ogden, and Lind took the 400-yard freestyle relay for the Crimson...
Kirkland elected George C. Pontikes '58 to the Council, and Leverett elected Peter Buffington '58. Theodore D. Moskowitz '58 was re-elected by Lowell House. The only sophomore elected from the Houses was George W. Wilson '59 of Winthrop...
M.I.T.'s greatest strength lies in the 200-yard backstroke, where the Crimson entrants must rate as underdogs. Two from the trio of John Trainer, Bill Murray, and Grif Winthrop will compete for Harvard...