Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, he and Toby Gerhart netted the only Harvard sweep of the afternoon in the 200-free. In the first leg of the final relay, Cahalan built a four-yard lead over Bob Whitney before Yale captain and anchor-man Robin Waples rallied...
Looking back, Jimmy Breslin spits at the business that made him. Excepting Millionaire Jock Whitney, who gave him a big play in the now departed New York Herald Tribune, Breslin has only scorn for publishers. "I worked for Newhouse, Scripps-Howard and Hearst-the Sing Sing, Leavenworth and Folsom of American journalism," he says. "People who are working for Newhouse shouldn't have the Guild as their bargaining agent. They should have the Mafia. And they should get a Pulitzer prize for malnutrition...
...vogue The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art have all sponsored jazz concerts within the past year. In Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art has held summer jazz events since 1960, and the Whitney Museum of American Art got into the swing last year...
...WHITNEY M. YOUNG...
...Waspirants. Many people were surprised to learn that Edmund Muskie, who talked and looked like a Down East Yankee, was actually of Polish descent. Edward Brooke, who was successfully promoted for the U.S. Senate by civic-spirited Wasps, has all the attributes of a well-bred Wasp, as does Whitney Young Jr. One doesn't have to be white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant to be a Wasp in spirit. The Wasp aura is created by the right education, style, social position, genealogy, achievement, wealth, profession, influence or politics...