Word: whitney
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Married. Kate Roosevelt, 23, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of California Congressman James Roosevelt and Betsy Gushing Roosevelt Whitney, adopted daughter of John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; and William Haddad, 31, crusading, prizewinning New York Post reporter; in Manhattan...
...varsity, except for the opening minutes of each half. Williams took 12 plays to march 70 yards for a touchdown, with most of the gains coming on three long passes. The Crimson pass defense showed many of the weaknesses that plagued it last season, and southpaw quarterback John Whitney tossed frequently and accurately into uncovered areas...
Even wily Proxy Fighter Alfons Landa, executive committee chairman of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., who helped Evans gain his place on the Crane board, was taken aback by Evans' maneuvers, questioned whether he was housecleaning too fast and hard. But Evans, who built Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co. from a money-losing locomotive manufacturer to a twelve-division, $137 million industrial combine, would hear none of it. Shuffling between his Greenwich, Conn, home and several cities, he worked harder and more ruthlessly to increase profits for Crane and solidify his power. Evans shifted about Crane's operations...
...administrative assistant to the late Vincent Astor, and temporary administrator of his estate, I am distressed to find that TIME, in its issue of Aug. 3, published an erroneous statement to the effect that Captain Astor was a patient in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic at the time his will was being drawn. It grew out of a witness' unfortunate confusion between the Baker Pavilion of New York Hospital and the Payne Whitney clinic. The fact is that the late Captain Astor was never at any time in his life in the Payne Whitney clinic, or in any other...
...Patient and precise, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, 31, from Dallas, retrieved shot after shot at Chicago's River Forest Tennis Club, finally put away San Jose State's Whitney Reed, 26, by the score of 6-0, 8-6, 7-5, to keep his U.S. clay-court championship, and to prove again that he is without peer on clay, where the balls bounce high and true, although he may be an also-ran on grass, where the shots skid low and hard...