Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Sidney Beardslee Wood Jr., 27, fourth-ranking U. S. amateur tennist, and his wife: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Sidney...
...Less costly ($950 a year) and less swank than such Eastern schools as Miss Porter's (Farmington) or Foxcroft, Stephens nevertheless has luxurious dormitories. a stable of 36 horses, a country club and other necessary equipment for turning out elegant young ladies. But fertile-brained James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, Stephens' president, believes that elegance is not enough. Eighteen years ago he hired an expert to find out what women do besides being elegant, learned that they busied themselves with 7,400 activities. To prepare his students for these-including a variety of professional careers-he installed a "functional...
Last week, accompanied by publicity-wise Daddy Wood, two nurses and 20 faculty members, one-third of Stephens packed its bags and went off on the school's annual junket to see some of the country and a few new boys (cost per student...
...follow the policy of the paper, and last year he had to draw two cartoons (pillorying a borough president's assistant because he was a Communist) that outraged his sense of fairness. Since then, no love has been lost between him and Executive Editor Lee B. Wood...
Last fortnight Executive Editor Wood told Cartoonist Kirby that his contract, which expires April 1, would not be renewed. To the man who once said: "Scripps-Howard and Joseph Pulitzer seem to have the same ideas," Mr. Wood added: "That's your wish...