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...Recently, Woodward and his wife had seemed to their friends and relatives to be much happier together. But they still had a peculiar emotional effect on each other. The week of the killing they got into an emotional dither over evidence that a prowler had broken into their Oyster Bay home. Explained Dr. John Prutting, Ann Woodward's physician...
...desire or masochistic submission, or else love out of pity." In his readable, reasonable, slice-of-love-life study of the great Russian novelist, Author Slonim, Russian-born teacher and critic, documents this Freudian analysis in detail. Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Slonim suggests that some of the grit in the oyster of Dostoevsky's genius was put there by women...
...racing his string of thoroughbred horses, and hunting big game in Africa and India. When he was not traveling abroad. Woodward divided his time between a Manhattan town house on East 73rd Street, his 2,500-acre Belair Stud Farm* near Bowie, Md. and a 60-acre estate at Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore...
...Woodwards left Mrs. Baker's party, went home. About an hour later the Oyster Bay telephone operator answered a call from the estate. All she heard over the telephone was repeated screaming, so she prudently dispatched the police. When they arrived, they found Ann Woodward babbling hysterically in her bedroom. Sprawled face down in the foyer of his bedroom, across a ten-ft. hall, was the nude body of William Woodward Jr., his face mangled by a blast from a twelve-gauge shotgun. Another charge of shot had smashed into the woodwork. The shotgun lay on the floor near...
Died. William Woodward Jr., 35, socialite and tiger-hunting sportsman, owner of the famed Belair Stud (the colt Nashua); in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...