Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EDWARD WHITNEY Moncton...
...Poloists Pete Bostwick, Bobby Gerry, Ebby Gerry and Eric Tyrrell-Martin of England (entered as Bostwick Field): the U. S. Open Polo Championship; defeating Jock Whitney's Greentree team (Peter Grace, Bob Skene of Australia, Tommy Hitchcock and Jock Whitney) in the final, 8-to-7; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
Directors of the Whitney Museum did not know whether they were more tickled over their sensational new indirect lighting system, their four new rooms, a new central staircase and widened halls, or the 118 paintings, 53 pieces of sculpture, 31 water colors, 29 drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey...
This week people who found the Whitney Museum's selection of 20th-century painting already turning tamely classic could rush off to the Associated American Artists' businesslike galleries, where to most of the 58 members of An American Group, Inc. classic was a fighting word. Their exhibition of paintings, sculpture and wood carvings was as up-to-the-minute as an air raid, often as violent and savage...
Today, engines for big ships are produced by only three U. S. factories: Pratt & Whitney (at East Hartford, Conn.) and Wright (at Paterson, N. J.), which produce radial, air-cooled engines, and General Motors Corp.'s Allison Engineering Co. (Indianapolis), which is just getting into production on liquid-cooled inline motors. If there is ever a bottleneck in the production of aircraft for war it will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than...