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...HELEN WOODWARD...
...debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier Guards), good military record (wounded three times in World War I), good marriage (the second daughter of the ninth...
...boss of the New York Herald Tribune, Helen Rogers Reid, 72, has long been the grande dame of U.S. journalism. Even before her husband Ogden Reid died in 1947, leaving her control of the paper, Helen Reid had a strong claim to the title. Once social secretary to Ogden Reid's mother, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, she began helping her husband on the Tribune in 1918 after $15 million of the family's money had been poured into the ailing daily...
Produced by ANTA's Gilbert Miller, with CARE as co-beneficiary, Album served up a two-hour, hot-to-cold potpourri of Broadway bits and pieces. Some of the players were topnotch: Helen Hayes in A Christmas Tie, Saroyan's one-act Omnibus comedy about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady...
Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Dedicating NBC's new Color TV City, with Dinah Shore, Judy Holliday, Bob Hope, Helen Hayes, Fred Allen...