* 1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress ( d. 1975 )

Gothic Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, with authors such as Phyllis A. Whitney, Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, and Jill Tattersall.

Their daughter Helen Julia Hay, a writer and poet, married Payne Whitney of the influential Whitney family ; their children were U. S. ambassador John Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson.

* 1971 Jack Dempsey and Joan Whitney Payson ( tie )

Despite objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San Francisco officials at around the same time that the Dodgers ' owner Walter O ' Malley was courting the city of Los Angeles.

New York would remain a one-team town with the New York Yankees until 1962 when Joan Whitney Payson founded the New York Mets and brought National League baseball back to the city.

The Institute has been the workplace of some of the most renowned thinkers in the world, including Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac, Kurt Gödel, Clifford Geertz, T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann, Freeman J. Dyson, Hassler Whitney, André Weil, Hermann Weyl, Harish-Chandra, Joan W. Scott, Frank Wilczek, Edward Witten, Albert O. Hirschman, Nima Arkani-Hamed, George F. Kennan, and Yve-Alain Bois.

Bates, John E., Brechwald, Whitney A., Hill G., Laura, Kenneth, Dodge A., Orrell-Valente, Joan K., Pettit, Gregory S. ( 2007 ).

She was the third woman to own a North American major-league team without inheriting it ( the first being New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson ), and the second woman to buy an existing team rather than inheriting it .< ref >

His father George Herbert Walker, Jr. was the cofounder of the New York Mets baseball team with Joan Whitney Payson.

Joan Simon and Brigitte Leal ( New York, Paris, and New Haven: Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, and Yale University Press, 2008 ), pp. 178 – 183.

* " Candy "-Music and Lyrics By Mack David, Joan Whitney and Alex J. Kramer

His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, USA, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, PS 1, Norton Museum and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and the Bibliothèque Nationale.

* Nuvo Japonica, Joan Whitney Payson Gallery, Portland, Maine, 1989

Whitney inherited his family's love of horses, a predilection he shared with his sister, Joan Whitney Payson.

Although married to Altemus, Jock Whitney was romantically linked to Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Bennett, Paulette Goddard and Joan Crawford.

With her children John Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson, they continued to build on the stable's success.

With the passing of John and Joan Whitney, in 1989 their heirs sold the Kentucky property to its current owners, Gainesway Farm.

* Joan Payson Award ( for excellence in community service )

In recognition of various community service and charity efforts, Benson has been honored with the Pittsburgh Pirates team Roberto Clemente Award, the Thurman Munson Award, the Joan Payson Award, and the New Jersey Sports Writers Humanitarian of the Year Award.

* Joan Whitney Payson ( 1903-1975 )

Joan Whitney Payson ( February 5, 1903 – October 4, 1975 ) was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family.

Payson donated significant works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where the " Joan Whitney Payson Galleries " can be found.

The Joan Whitney Payson Collection is on permanent loan to the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine and to Colby College in Waterville, Maine for one semester every two years.

Joan Whitney Payson was a sports enthusiast who was a minority shareholder in the old New York Giants Major League Baseball club.

Joan Whitney Payson died in New York City, aged 72, after the 1975 baseball season.

In 1991, her son, John Whitney Payson, permanently installed the Joan Whitney Payson Collection in the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine where the Charles Shipman Payson Building cornerstones the Museum and is home to seventeen paintings by Winslow Homer he donated.

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Philippa was interested in learning and was as avid a reader as her mother, Joan of Valois, who introduced French literary culture to the court of Hainaut.

Daughter Joan, an avid sportsperson, was the first owner of the New York Mets Major League Baseball team.

to Joan Sheldon the conditional bequest of ten thousand to be paid to her in the event that she was still in Mrs. Meeker's employ at the time of the latter's death.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

allied to them was Gerry, devoting much time to swaying her father, and Joan dismissed all thought of the project and William was unwilling to interfere further.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

Joan of England, ( 22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238 ), was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême.

Joan was 11.

Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

This marriage was an attempt to inherit the throne of Castile as Joan was the sole daughter of Henry IV.

Joan II and Louis III again took possession of the realm, although the true power was in the hands of Gianni Caracciolo.

It stipulated that a brother of King Louis was to marry Joan of Toulouse, daughter of Raymond VII of Toulouse, and so in 1237 Alphonse married her.

Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

On the other hand Liberace was " cut to the quick " over Loverboynik, according to Capp, and even threatened legal action — as would Joan Baez later, over " Joanie Phoanie " in 1967.

The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.

In 1942, Chaplin had a brief affair with Joan Barry, whom he was considering for a starring role in a proposed film.

Joan Baez, who was also of Mexican-American descent, included Hispanic themes in some of her protest folk songs.

Gerald Vaughan, a government minister, tried to halve government funding for the Citizens Advice Bureau, apparently because Joan Ruddock, CND's chair, was employed part-time at his local bureau.