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Again, again & again the telephone on Professor Harold Clayton Urey's littered desk rang one afternoon last week. "Thank you," said Dr. Urey to friends, students, colleagues. "Thank you....Thank you....Thank you." Someone brought into his office on Columbia University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...John's (Annapolis, Md.) a rebellious freshman mob started after a tyrannical sophomore, bent on dumping him in the Severn River. Suddenly they were confronted by a grim, menacing figure. "I suggest that you act like gentlemen," snapped St. John's new President Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, 51, onetime Federal Prohibition Administrator. Thereupon the freshmen melted away...
...John's. Last fortnight Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, onetime (1930-33) Federal Director of Prohibition, was elected president of St. John's College at Annapolis, Md. Simultaneously Douglas Huntly Gordon, 31, was abruptly dismissed as the head of the third oldest college in the U. S. Appointed acting president until Mr. Woodcock takes office next autumn was Dr. Reginald Heber Ridgely, biology professor...
...loose financing, unwarranted free scholarships for board members' friends. Last week a representative committee of St. John's 300 students issued a statement viewing President Gordon's departure with "genuine regret," declaring he had won the "support and confidence of the student body." All President-elect Woodcock, A. E. F. veteran, Methodist and bachelor, would say was: "I want to revive what we used to call the St. John's spirit, building the future of the college on character and scholarship...
...Last week, after a two-month survey based "upon the best information available," Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock estimated that there were 3,844 places in Manhattan to buy liquor. Until razed to make way for Rockefeller Center, many a speakeasy flourished within a cork-pop of the Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...