• John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was an American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer...
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    Roosevelt, and later wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James's, John Hay Whitney. She was the middle daughter of prominent neurosurgeon Harvey Williams...
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    was a member by marriage of the prominent Whitney family of New York. She was the daughter of John Milton Hay (1838–1905), who served as United States...
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    children: Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975), who was the first owner of the New York Mets Major League Baseball team. John Hay Whitney (1904–1982), who...
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    of Dye Transfer Printing. McFarland & Company, 2003. ISBN 0-7864-1809-5 John Waner, Hollywood's Conversion of All Production to Color. Tobey Publishing...
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    as the Venetian Room, a reception room that William Payne Whitney's wife Helen Hay Whitney particularly valued. Since 2014, the second and third stories...
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    Hassler Whitney (1907–1989) Henry Melville Whitney (1839–1923) James Scollay Whitney (1811–1878) Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975) John Hay Whitney (1905–1982)...
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    The Harvey Cushing and John Hay Whitney Medical Library is the central library of the Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Nursing, and Yale-New Haven...
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  • J. H. Whitney & Company is a venture-capital firm in the U.S., founded in 1946 by partners John Hay Whitney and Benno Schmidt. Today, the firm focuses...
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  • inheriting it. Joan Whitney was born in New York City, the daughter of William Payne Whitney and Helen Julia Hay. Her brother was John Hay Whitney. She inherited...
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    The building was donated to Yale by John Hay Whitney, of the Yale class of 1926, in honor of his father, Payne Whitney. Because it was designed in the Gothic...
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    Skidmore, and Schenck farms. Later, John Hay Whitney and his second wife, Betsey, occupied the main house, where Mrs. Whitney remained in residence there until...
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    of Kazimir Malevich in 1999, using funds from the bequest of Mrs. John Hay Whitney. Black Square (1915) "Suprematist Composition: White on White". Museum...
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  • far behind its rival. In 1958, the Reids sold the Herald Tribune to John Hay Whitney, a multimillionaire Wall Street investor who was serving as ambassador...
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    Tribune. New York, N.Y. May 18, 1923. p. 9. "Yale Alumni Magazine: John Hay Whitney". Yale Alumni Publications inc. May 2002. Archived from the original...
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    Paris the same year. It was bequeathed in 1998 by the estate of Mrs. John Hay Whitney to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. It is an example of...
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  • enlisted clerk John Hay Whitney – who had become one of the wealthiest men in America following the 1927 death of his father, Payne Whitney. Williams eventually...
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  • and television John Hay Whitney (1904–1982), millionaire John Whitney (industrialist) (1836–1932), New Zealand industrialist John Whitney (footballer) (1874–...
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  • went to London as an aide to Winthrop W. Aldrich and secretary to John Hay Whitney when they were Ambassadors to the Court of St James under President...
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    has been in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. since John Hay Whitney, the previous owner, died in 1982. The work features long strokes of...
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    Harvey Cushing (category Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians)
    Vincent Astor and later James Whitney Fosburgh; Betsey Cushing (1908–1998), who married James Roosevelt and later John Hay Whitney; Henry Kirke Cushing (1910–1983)...
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  • Yale New Haven Hospital. The school is home to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, one of the largest modern medical libraries which...
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  • James Roosevelt, the son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later John Hay Whitney. Together, the Cushing sisters were often referred to by the public...
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    2015-02-10. Retrieved 2013-04-22. Andis, Our History Thorpe 1967, p. 120. "John Hay Whitney Philanthropist, Film Producer, and Father of the Crew Cut". Yale Alumni...
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    stockholders "which included Ward Cheney, of the Cheney silk family, John Hay Whitney, and Paul Mellon, son of Andrew W. Mellon".: 259  Paul Mellon's ownership...
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    International Pictures dissolved leaving the film's rights to financier John Hay Whitney. Whitney then sold the film to Film Classics, Inc. in 1943. With declining...
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    became involved in the motion picture industry, notably with his cousin John Hay Whitney as a major shareholder backing the Technicolor Corporation. The two...
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    Cushing (1908–1998), who was married to James Roosevelt II and later to John Hay Whitney, and Barbara Cushing (1915–1978), who married Stanley Grafton Mortimer...
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    Standard Oil Trust. R. E. Smith, Houston; independent oil operator. John Hay Whitney, New York, Ambassador to Britain; venture capital and inherited wealth...
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  • National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1965–66), the New York Council on the Arts fellowships...
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