Word: woodruff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Samuel Taylor's rather sketchy book tells the story of David Jordon, a writer from "the rock-bound coast of Maine" and his love affair with Barbara Woodruff, the highest paid fashion model in Paris, and incidentally a Negro. David was once at the top of his profession (he had won a Pulitzer Prize for his last book eight years previously) and Barbara is at the top of hers. Europe has made Barbara what she is--in America she was just a poor girl from Harlem and George Washington High--but it has also drained David of his creative energy...
...leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed for Thomas Coke, another early bishop. Thus lured to Atlanta, Emory still drinks from the same bottle. Coca-Cola money accounts for about half its $70 million assets, and the current Coke king, Alumnus Robert Woodruff, is Emory's biggest single angel...
...sustained drive here that retains a sense of values," says Editor Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution. "It's not the Houston gogo; the drive is here but the brashness is not." Much of Atlanta's stability under change comes from its business leaders, such as Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's retired chairman, and Richard Rich of Rich's, the South's largest department store, who have long made no-nonsense civic enterprise an Atlanta tradition. "This is not a playboy's town and it's not a cocktail-at-lunch town," says...
David Jordan (Richard Kiley) is an expatriate ''Europe bum,'' a permanent house and party guest on the Paris-Monte Carlo-St. Tropez axis. He once wrote a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel and now has trouble whisking the dust off his typewriter. Barbara Woodruff (Diahann Carroll), tall and graceful as a flamingo, has taken a long-legged step from a Harlem fire escape to a high-fashion perch as the best-paid model in Paris. Her philosophy: "I just want money, and then some money, and loads of lovely love...
...Mormons believe that Negroes will ultimately cleanse themselves of their curse and attain equal status with the other latter-day saints. "It's sure to be," said a Mormon in Salt Lake City last week, "but the question is when." He recalled the proclamation of President Wilford Woodruff in 1890 abolishing polygamy-soon after Congress and the Supreme Court had outlawed the practice, and in good time to ensure Utah's admission as a state, six years later...