Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight, CBE, MC, DFC, FRSA, FRGS (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman...
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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family...
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Michael Whitney Straight (September 1, 1916 – January 4, 2004) was an American magazine publisher, novelist, patron of the arts, a member of the prominent...
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The Miles M.11 Whitney Straight was a 1930s twin-seat cabin monoplane designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Miles Aircraft. It was...
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Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918) Whitney Willard Straight (1912–1979) Beatrice Whitney Straight (1914–2001) Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004) Adeline...
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Dorothy Payne Elmhirst (née Whitney, previously Straight; January 23, 1887 – December 14, 1968) was an American-born social activist, philanthropist, publisher...
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Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), a member of the Whitney family who was a publisher and novelist. Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight, an...
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her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history. Dorothy Straight was born on May 25, 1958, in Washington...
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a member of the Whitney family. He was a promoter of Chinese arts and investments, and a major supporter of liberal causes. Straight was born on January...
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1958), American writer Henry Harrison Straight (1846–1886), American geologist and professor Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), American magazine publisher...
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big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton. His daughter married Whitney Straight of the American Whitney family and his son married a member of the Vanderbilt family...
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In geometry, the Whitney umbrella or Whitney's umbrella, named after American mathematician Hassler Whitney, and sometimes called a Cayley umbrella, is...
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist. Known as "the Voice"...
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grandchildren included: Whitney Willard Straight (1912–1979), a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, and businessman, Beatrice Whitney Straight (1914–2001),...
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Louis Dolivet (category Whitney family)
Academy Award and Tony Award-winning actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, of the prominent American Whitney family. Ludovic Brecher was born on March 26, 1908...
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Zehender's entry and there were also 8CM models for Nuvolari, Whitney Straight and Earl Howe. Straight also had an older Maserati 26M for Hugh Hamilton (who won...
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Margarita Finch-Hatton (1913–2003), who married Whitney Straight (1912–1979), a member of the oldWhitney family, in 1935. Lady Henrietta Diana Juanita Finch-Hatton...
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Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), a member of the Whitney family who was a publisher and novelist. Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918)...
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Whitney or Whittney is both a masculine and a feminine given name. Whitney Able (born 1982), American actress Whitney Adebayo (born 1997), English television...
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and upgrade organisation, and a builder of transport aircraft. Whitney Willard Straight was a successful racing driver in the early 1930s, but his American...
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ideological agents were the diplomats Laurence Duggan and Michael Whitney Straight in the State Department, the statistician Harry Dexter White in the...
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William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 – May 25, 1927) was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune...
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M11 or M-11 may refer to: Miles M.11 Whitney Straight, a 1936 two-seater light aircraft Shvetsov M-11, an aircraft engine produced in the Soviet Union...
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supercharger. In 1957 Fleming had written to Rolls-Royce's Chairman, Whitney Straight, to get information about a new car for Bond. Fleming wanted the car...
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turbojet engines. In 1958 it was discovered during a visit to Beijing by Whitney Straight, then deputy chairman of Rolls-Royce, that this engine had been copied...
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five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight. Steers grew up living in Bethesda, Maryland and Georgetown, Washington...
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sister Gertrude was married to Harry Payne Whitney, brother to Dorothy Payne Whitney, whose son Whitney Straight married Lord Winchilsea's sister, Lady Daphne...
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never to marry again. For 30 years she was in a relationship with Whitney Straight, a married pilot and a pre-war champion racing driver, like her father...
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Michael Whitney Straight pointing to Blunt's espionage; the two had known each other at Cambridge some thirty years before and Blunt recruited Straight as...
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The New Republic (section Michael Straight)
financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and of her husband, Willard Straight (1880–1918); and Willard Straight eventually became the majority owner...
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