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...Farmer's Daughter. Ann Woodward was born nearly 40 years ago on a farm four miles west of Pittsburg, Kans. (pop. 20,000) and named Angeline Luceil (later Lucille) Crowell. At some time in her rise to fame and fortune she shucked seven years from her age, along with most other details of her ordinary but respectable past...
Four years later that farm failed, too, and the Crowells moved into Pittsburg. There, when Angeline was eight, her mother and father were divorced. Last week father Jesse Crowell, 64, a retired streetcar conductor in Gaylord, Mich., was amazed and "awful sorry" to learn that Ann Woodward was the daughter he had not seen or heard of in 23 years. "I taught her how to sit on a horse, and she later became a good rider," he recalled proudly. "I'm sure that was a great help to her when she began to associate with high society." For years...
After her parents' divorce, pretty Angeline and her mother stayed in Pittsburg, where Ethel Crowell (who was also a pretty blonde) taught social science in the high school, and was married and divorced a second time. During the Depression, Mrs. Crowell operated a four-hack taxicab company in Kansas City, and she and her daughter lived in a shabby apartment back of the taxicab office. Angeline was "shy and insecure," according to a cousin, and had one ambition that amounted to an obsession: to go to Hollywood and become a film star...
...Eden Crowell Woodward, a farmer's daughter and onetime model from Pittsburg (pop. 20,000), Kans. enthusiastically shared her husband's interest in the turf and society. Several years ago, after watching Bill Woodward shoot a tiger and a leopard in India, she decided to take up big-game hunting herself. Last winter, in the jungles of Assam, she bagged two tigers (including one tenfooter, an unofficial record for women) and two leopards...
...Russell Kelce, 58, was elected president of Peabody Coal Co., the nation's No. 2 commercial coal producer (No. 1: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal), succeeding Otto Gressens, who became board chairman. Son of a Pittsburg, Kans. miner, Kelce went into the pits at 15, by the time he was 22 owned his own mine in Oklahoma. In 1924 Kelce moved into small Sinclair Coal, which actually owned no mines and acted only as a coal seller. In a few years he made the Sinclair group into one of the nation's biggest producers, with 17 mines in six states...