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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
MAN OF MANY PARTS IS BY THE
AMBASSADOR WHITNEY
HE'S HOST THIS WEEK
TO HIS PRESIDENT
London,
One cold afternoon in February, 1957, a tall, grin- ning American worth 60 million dollars climbed the steps of the American Embassy in London's Grosvenor Square and announced to the four Marines on duty: "Meet your new boss." The Marines sapped into a salute. Then one wrote painstakingly into the Arrivals Book, "1500 hours. J. H. Whitney, Amb."
Prompt cash paid for used John Hay Whitney, politician, Secretary of the Navy under
wish Stump If you
mer-art ellefear, industrialist, President Grover Cleveland, and ebondins ch as fountain pea, philanthropist, theatrical pro- also had the foresight to realise cameras, blothing, ele, will be motor, fim producer, bon vivant, that street railways were here seat in exchange. Sind 300 or sportsman and administrator to stay, That was the start of more amis, Daylon Stamp|had, et 52, begun a new career the Whitney fortune. Company, PO, NOX No. 2, FAR |--us Ameriemm Ambassador to HILLS BRANCH, DAYTÖN 19, the Court of St James. OHIO.
And. rs, he sak later "It'e the biggest milestone of my
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ANOTHER MILESTONE
FRIEND OF BRITAIN
Young "lock" Was raised amid fuence that a monarch would envy. ifis father we a multi-milionaire and steadily building up is sciels. Bull 22, handsome, beefy Jeck pirt this behind him and set sail for year of post- Britain for
EngUsh For graduate
in work Literature at New College, Oxford,
Soon, the besperineled Whitney will be able to add on ather, albeit smaller, milestone to his astonishing career. this week, amid the rumbiings of a gathering Western unity, he plays host to President Eisen- hoover.
Few could all the role of host better than "Jock" Huy Whitney, Charming, brilliant and a vein- ating conversationalist, he is an old golfing partner of the president's.
CHANGE OF
Whitney was born to be great. In fact, he could hard- ly have rscaped 11. One grand- Father, John Hay, also served as Ambassador tu Britain (1897-08), was Personal Bee- to Abraham Lincoln rotary and Secretary of State under Presidents William Mokinicy and Theodore Roosevelt.
The
other
grandfather, William C. Whitney, served as
ADDRESS
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD.
have pleasure in announcing
their move to
NEW PREMISES
in
THE CHARTERED BANK BUILDING,
2nd Floor,
Des Voeux Road Central
on
1ST SEPTEMBER, 1959
Tel. No. 28191-5 remains unchanged
R. H. MACY & CO., INC., NEW YORK
with Department Stores:
Macy's New York
New York, NY.
L. Bamberger & Co.
Newark, NJ. Davison-Paxon Co. Atlanta, Ga.
The LoSalle & Koch Co. Toledo Ohio
Macy's California San Francisco, Cal.
Macy's Kansas City Kansas City, Mo.
with thirty-one Branch Stores
and the Department Stores:
J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS, OMAHA
MEIER & FRANK CO., INC., PORTLAND
Belfast (Ireland)
London (England)
While he was in Oxford, his father died and left him several Waliney returned 19 millions. the U.S. a confirmed friend of Britain and the British.
Backt home, he accomplished the incredible fent of starting at the top of the family concern and climbing even further.
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST JAMES Mr John Hay Whitnoy shown with his wife.
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by Beachcomber
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DD though it may sound the Macaroon's bag yesterday WAI one lobster! Apparently the Laird .0 Kil-cockrobbin
warned of an early
start for
Shriilwillie Moor, came down in the half-light of dawn and enw in bird-like object at the kitchen window.
Malayan Newsletter From Gordon Hung
Motorists Have Been Put In A Tight Spot
Kuala Lumpur, Aug, 20 (By Air Mail),
The government has put the cart before the horse
in introducing the new traffic ordinance before the publication of the Highway Code and left motorists groping around in the dark in this city trying to find out what they can do and cannot do.
He ran for his gun crying, as to the manner born," "Mark avor!" The Macaroon of Macaroon thought he WAS chutting "Narkover!" and that the place was being Invaded
The new Highway Code will by urching from the famous
not be avallebie to the public school, le rushed from his bed-unth the end of this month, yet retm, snatched the Laird's, notorists are expected to be and Bred at the object in the window, winging, or, rather, clawing it for it was lobster.
The explanation
aware of all the new rules of a dead the road, or they may be pro-
secuted.
The only way nnyone can and out what the revised regulations
ROUSED by the noise, Foul-nre is to buy a copy of the
a
capital for HK$2.8 million to a Chinese bank.
The Overgens-Chinese Com- mercial bank expects to take
in November pasession December after Whiteawaya have cleared their locks with a cloning down sale,
or
control of the Great Universal Stores group in Brilon in 1857. Sir Harold Gillet, the then chairman of Whiteaways, raid the company imd branches na widely scattered no Afglatino,
Ceylon, Hongkong,
Malays,
N enough rubbed what it is trame ordinance. Few people Whiteaways passed into the charitable to call the sleep from are going to read it from the his bloodshot eyes and came front cover to the back and the downstairs. He was able to only way a motorist knows he explain that before going to bed has done something wrong is to
a hole in the have he had noticed
demand for driver's kitchen window, and
had particulars thrust into his steer- bunged it to stop the draught |ing wheel.
he had with a lobster
found Malaya's first Highway Code, under a chair in the library; } in both Malayan and English, of an impromptu meal will have touches of humour to during the day. The three men, help give it is more direct op each coking extremely silly,peal to the public, But unus quate stocks of merchandise was
part
then went back to bed,
If proof were needed
T
this is ready motorists will just have to lucky to keep away from the police.
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Singapore and Canada, and the nnictint of mancy needed to
supply the branches with ode-
increasing year by year.
The alteratives to tecepting Great Univeral's offer were to seek additional capital or dis-* pase of some branchet to pro- vide further working capitali
(Whiteaways will continue to nol
and enthusiastic tunction in Singapore
Penang,
In Hongkong, it will about introducing service charge system in recalled, it has for some years been operating in a mun- their hotels,
ber of branches on the Hong- system be introduced, then pro- consolidated its activities in one They said that should such a kong side, It has now
branch--Fung House on Con- naught Road--and will continue to operate on the same scalo as before in both Hongkong and Kowloon).
per
modsures would have to be taken to ensure that this syntem was strictly followed.
For this, both the patrons and
should be co-
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H E Swollt Education Committee, of which I wDE chairmon in 1053, has, after pallent research, produced Hotel managers here are startling and even revolutionary contribution to contemporary thought. It advances the daring theory that children who sit up watch television usually go to bed later than children who do Committee on Education Beyond Register, and says today; "Such not sit up to watch television High School and the President's things Commission
travesty of The latter may be said to go to Foreign democracy," Economic Policy,
bed earller than those who go Whitneyb plunge in bo to bed later. Bul privately at home, diplomacy come hardly a "Quelques Cochers de Whitney's opulent ille
For one was surprise in America. belt avidly
Huntingdonshire" the hotel staff reported and thing, he was a staunch and dimected by the columnists, renowned Republican,
friend HERE are some of the things operative and show goodwill. He married Belsey Cushing of Eisenhower's. For an-reviewers are saying about cent to a guest's bill for cervice The practice of adding 10 per Roorevell, one of the three other, so
Inadequate (about the anthology made from the
and then distributing the money beautiful daughters of great £4,000) la the entertainment five volumes of the "List of among the staff surgeon Dr Harvey. Cushing allowance of the U.S. Am- Huntingdonshire Cab men." and ex-wife of James Roose-bassador to the Court of St "Thought not stranger
popular in Europe and plans are than
being made to do the same in vell, cidral sun of the late James that only a millionaire-fiction, it is a feast of fact, Hongkong. President.
especially a millionaire earning Nomenclature run riot....The
However, this idea has not He bought himself two private £5 a minute-could take it on, cabamen come to life as UAD Whitney Straigh!. irplanes, A cousin,
trapressed hotel reads....A bedside must for Kuala Lumpur.
managers two Chryslers for one-time racing driver and now himself, two Cadillacs for his But when he left his 18,000- | the discerning reader....The deputy chairman of Rolls-
They feel that it would not wife. He had two Sumptuous acre Georgian estate, ha island initials alone are worth the Royce, was once detalled, ns
way out in the rice....Tho
any problems from the trical book to pilot, to drop Jock Whither swimming pools one, outdoor beach house
Long island relax with on
point of view, neither the beach.... ccretly into once so that He and the other indoor built into Atlantie end his
his magnificent Long Island palace to tackle the job, the new
I hear that the French trans-would the hotel employees ap- could contact the French Under-
Ambassador had no illusions.
preciate it. lation of Vol. IV (Henderson. ground.
He knew, for instance, thE. L. a Moodle, F.), entitled the U.S. Ambassador's Regent's "Quelques Cochers de Hunting- Park mansion required a staff donshire" is being made into 11 A restaurant here has in- of at least 15 and that only four were on the official payroll. Yel That he would have to bear, from bis-own pocket, much of tho expense Incurred by entertaining"--, an average of £57 a day.
Came the Second World War and Whitney was again over- sens, this time as a colonel in
Alr the American Intelligence.
Force
CAPTURED ESCAPED The coincidence didn't stop there. remember we were pulling his leg the night before Whitney Straight recalls. "We told him that if he was captured and had to jump from a moving train he must jump from the right-hand side, because the guard couldn't use his rifle with irls left hand.“
Jock was captured- and escaped from the right-hand
on Ambassador Winani's
home.
At that time, he was telling reporters: "Yes, you could any I was worth 60 million dollars. it would be pesky of me to quibble over a few millions one way or another."
EASY-GOING
Whitney has a healthily cray- going attitude towards money which great wealth seldom
brings.
documentary
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Felve Cuchi'n
Діт by Marc
-(London Express Survlet).
This had been propheslod
In
troduced a new line in made from kan- soups
garoo tail, flown up specially from Australia. "We will include it in the menu for a trial period, to see it it proves popular with customers." said the ecstaurant
manager.
our
In fact, it was estimated that, five months after he had moved to London, Whitney had spent If he was bacicing sure dollar more than £12,600 wining and
The recipe includes Chinese "Gong dining his guests, three times his spinnera like the m With The Wind," and the play, entertainment allowance for the Unto you is born in the herbs and spices, together with wine and shewy, They soup | side of a moving train.
"Streetcar Named Desire," he whole year.
city of David a Saviour, tastes something like oxtail coup was also pumping cash into two Even for o multi-millionaire Later, Whitney was in London settlements, one (the John Hoy who owns big holdings in the Which is Christ the Lord.except it has a much richer
favour. Air Whitney Foundation) for help Freeport Sulphur Company (one Luke 2:11.
Elowhere here, kangaroo (Staff, and he took part in the Ing the under-privileged, and of the world's largest suppliers), planning of the German peace the other (3, Whitney and coffee plantations, the Standard in early Hebrew writingent has gone to the dogs-in a treaty terms,
Cu.) to provide capital for Of Company, and now☎papers-
big way. of the New and in those of many other For a time after that, he was ventures that were too un- he bought control
for run-of-the-mill York Herald Tribune last year lands. No wonder we rec-been imported as dog meat. a member of the U.S.,National orthodox Commission for NÉSCO financles.
this orglastle spending has to kon all time from this event. surveyed U.S. Foreign Service Some me ago, he received a end some time.
Whitney says that will be in It is important to us posts in 1954 as vice-chairman routine letter from the Social *
of State's Register asking the Secretary
him to verify January, 1961. And he adds. "I cording as we follow His Public Committee on Personnel, his family listing
another. am way of life. and append would not take land served on the President's their summer residence. Whitney basadorial post. I shall be very promptly abdicated from the busy In the newspaper business,
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