Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high point of the season was the Yale meet. Records fell starting with the first event, as the Bulldog team of Miguel Garcia, John Howells, Mike Austin, and Dave Weeks surged past the Crimson entry of Dave Reisen, Bob Dillworth, Mike Reiss and Frank Wood for a first place time of 3:59.6 and a new Yale freshman record. Captain Bob Price, an outstanding butterfly man (55.2 for the hundred against Dartmouth), might have made the difference for the Crimson, but he has been sidelined with mononucleosis since the Dartmouth meet...
...addition, there seems to be a limitless supply of sub-52 sprinters. Dillworth, a most consistent point-winner for the squad, has done a 51.8 100 split in a relay, as has Denis Hunter, Bruce's brother. Wood is also a fine sprinter as is Elliot Miller, the fastest of them all over a flat hundred, in 50 plus...
...WILLIAM WOOD PRINCE...
...choicest cut of the meat packing business -which traditionally has the thinnest profit margin of any major industry - goes to Chicago's Armour & Co. One reason is Armour's chairman, William Wood Prince, an athletic and esthetic man of 47, who is equally at ease in a Michigan Avenue art gallery or on a stockyard's manure pile. In four years as chief executive, Billy Prince has raised Armour's earnings fivefold, to $16 million on last year's sales of $1.7 billion. This year, despite a first-quarter squeeze on profits. Prince expects...
Billy Prince began his business career at the most difficult place: the top. He was born William Wood, the son of a wealthy insurance executive. His father was a friend and distant cousin of eccentric Magnate Frederick Henry Prince, who played a dominant role in Armour for 15 years and liked to boast that he had built four U.S. railroads and controlled 46 others. Frederick Henry Prince lacked an heir: his younger son had been killed flying in World War I and his older son preferred the life of a gentleman farmer to business. Prince took a fatherly interest...