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John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Whitney family .
John Hay Whitney (* 17. August 1904 in Ellsworth, Maine; † 8. Februar 1982) war ein US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, Diplomat, Verleger, Kunstmäzen und Kunstsammler. Leben. Sein Vater, Payne Whitney, war Unternehmer und seine Mutter, Helen Hay Whitney, war Kunstmäzenin. Seine Schwester hieß Joan Whitney Payson.
When the US entered World War II, John Hay Whitney attended officer's candidate school and became a captain in the army air forces. In 1944, as a colonel, he was captured by the Germans while on a mission in southern France. Held for 18 days, he escaped from a train taking prisoners to camps in Germany, and was subsequently rescued by French ...
John Hay Whitney, (born August 17, 1904, Ellsworth, Maine, U.S.—died February 8, 1982, Manhasset, New York), American multimillionaire and sportsman who had a multifaceted career as a publisher, financier, philanthropist, and horse breeder.
After graduating from Yale in 1926, John Hay Whitney, known as “Jock,” studied at Oxford in England until his father died in 1927. Upon his return to the United States to manage the family fortune, Whitney worked his way up in the banking industry as a buzzer boy and statistical clerk even though he had inherited a reported $100 million ...
1961 wurde der Medienunternehmer John Hay Whitney Mehrheitsgesellschafter, Herausgeber und Editor-in-Chief und investierte 40 Millionen US-Dollar, um die Zeitung wieder auf Erfolgskurs zu bringen. Fünf Jahre später verlor die Herald Tribune ihre Selbstständigkeit.
9. Feb. 1982 · John Hay Whitney, master of one of the great American fortunes and a pace-setting leader in a kaleidoscope of fields, died yesterday in North Shore Hospital, Manhasset, L.I., after a long...
