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August 18, 1951

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profiles

MAN OF MEANS

E. J. Kahn

PROFILE of John Hay (Jock) Whitney. He worked as a buzzer boy at Lee, Higginson & Co., at a salary of sixty-five a month. Mr. Whitney stayed a year, ending…

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