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Last week, after 27 years. Dr. Wilson's scientific adjustment paid off to the tune of $1,000,000 in Rockefeller money to promote the teaching and public understanding of osteopathy. The pianist-patient was California-born Martha Baird, then in her 30s. And Martha Baird, after the death of her second husband in 1950, became in 1951 the second wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. In nine years of marriage before his death this May, John D. Jr. also, at his wife's suggestion, enjoyed Dr. Wilson's ministrations...
Launched a year ago by George H. Baird, former research head of the Shaker Heights schools, the council is a nonprofit corporation of experts, who recommend improvements and charge the schools a modest fee to put ideas to work. "The nation has 603 organizations doing educational research," says Director Baird. "We are the only one set up specifically to make research available in the classroom...
Taxes and Promotions. Baird started the council with $100,000 from Cleveland businessmen, hoped seven school systems would join. By last week he had signed up 21 (including private and parochial schools), who pay $6,000 apiece for expert help. The council plans to get to work soon on science and English curriculums. The 23-man staff will also tackle any other problem that concerns the schools. The experts analyze bond issues and tax rates, even plan new schools. Suburban Berea originally planned to build a new high school in 1965, but the council's researchers proved that Berea...
...manhunt. Short minutes before Bus No. 8 took on its mysterious passenger, one of the goriest crimes had been committed since the days of Jack the Ripper. Creeping into the Y.W.C.A. near the Lee Bank Road bus stop, a killer had broken into the room of fresh-faced Stephanie Baird, 29, an unemployed typist who was packing for a Christmas trip to Scotland. He seized one of Stephanie's blunt table knives, hacked and ripped her body, and ended the sadistic orgy, which police claim must have lasted at least 45 minutes, by cutting off her head. He escaped...
JULIAN T. BAIRD...