Word: woodruff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah-Arizona border are called Fundamentalists and believe that multiple marriage is the law of God. What they practice openly (TIME, Aug. 3, 1953) thousands of others throughout the West practice in secret. And this is not surprising, for it is little more than 65 years since aged Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, publicly declared that "my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The Mormons have condemned plural marriage ever since, and do not recognize...
Colgate Salsbury is wholly professional in the part of a red-pajama'd Irish salesman. His every grumble is funny. As a radical young poet, Woodruff Price seems to have a harder role. Perhaps this is because he plays it with less ease, though still effectively, as does Lee Jeffries in the role of the poet's lover, who sacrifices herself for him. An indignant landlord, John Ratte, sheds humor on the whole scene with his belligerent fist-shakings. Ann Adams and, again, Clare Scott, depict two sympathetic but gossipy old women in the boarding house where a detective, Bruce...
John Poppy '57, president of the HDC, has announced that open casting for the play will being this afternoon in Phillips Brooks House, and continue through Monday. Woodruff Price '56 and Lucia Stein '57 will co-produce the play, and William Meador '58 will be the director. Donald Bourne of the Graduate School of Design will design the sets...
...addition Gertrude M. Woodruff a teaching fellow in Anthropology, will study the school structure of the city of Bangalore, India...
Moving President H. B. Nicholson up to board chairman. Bob Woodruff reached outside the company for a new president to replace himself as chief executive officer. His choice: William E. Robinson, 54, the smart, hard-driving and affable ex-publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and chairman of Robinson-Hannagan Associates, which handles Coke's public relations. Bill Robinson, an old friend and golfing companion of Woodruff's, knows his way around in politics as well as business. An early Eisenhower backer, he introduced Ike to the Augusta National Golf Club, helped convince Ike that he could...