Word: woodruff
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Married. Katherine Woodruff Field, 38, Chicago socialite, second wife (of three) of the late Marshall Field Jr.; and Lawrence Fanning, 52, until last December editor of Field's Chicago Daily News, who has just resigned from the Field Enterprises, is now looking for a new post; she for the second time, he for the third; in Bensenville...
...teaching of reading. They have little doubt that some parents can teach some three-year-olds and four-year-olds to read-but why should they? "No one has really given any sound reason for doing so," says Psychologist William Kessen of Yale's Child Study Center. Myra Woodruff, recently retired chief of New York State's Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education, believes that the real motivation for many parents to teach their tots is that "it represents status...
Cosmetics and soft drinks have few things in common except that leading companies in both fields have long been headed by a couple of tough, almost legendary characters: Charles H. Revson, 59, chairman of Revlon, and Robert W. Woodruff, 76, finance-committee chairman and a major stockholder at Coca-Cola Co. They are not exactly fading away just yet, but last week both firms named two big men to top jobs...
...Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, agreed to open a branch campus at Ellsworth under a $500,000 contract with the Air Force Institute of Technology. Now rounding out its first year of full-scale operation, the school has been "phenomenally successful," says Major James B. Woodruff, liaison man between Hastings and the Institute. Many older students (average age: 30) plan to become teachers when they leave the Air Force. Graduates who stay on will become much-needed managers, trained to allocate and spend defense dollars...
...school to give M.A.s in aerospace technology at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana has lately faltered because of a high dropout rate, leaving the Institute leary of the whole principle. But Ellsworth and the other Minuteman schools have three contracted years to run, and Hastings and Woodruff feel confident that by then there will be no doubting the value of underground education...