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Died. Mrs. Susan Homans Woodruff, 83, last of a trio of elderly female angels of the Communist Daily Worker; in Manhattan. Onetime Schoolmarm Woodruff, a Smith College graduate and a D.A.R., joined Anna Whitaker Pennypacker (daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) and Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed (daughter of a Cambridge, Mass, physician) in providing the Worker with an early-American front after 1940. She once explained why Representative Martin Dies had never called her to testify before his Un-American Activities Committee: "The public would certainly make fun of him for bothering three old ladies...
...Whitfield, 27, moved through the field, passing them one by one. In the homestretch, opening up, the 1948 Olympic champion whizzed to an 8-yd. victory in meet record time of 1:48.6, a full 1.3 seconds faster than the 1936 record of Pittsburgh's famed John Woodruff...
Died. Harry A. Woodruff, 48, Manhattan importer and onetime vice consul in Tunis (1941-42); by his own hand (gunshot); in Brooklyn. In North Africa, as assistant to Robert D. Murphy, then counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Vichy, Woodruff worked in the undercover preparations for the U.S. invasion, won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre and U.S. Medal for Merit...
GEORGIA-17. National Committeeman Harry Sommers, Atlanta automobile dealer and longtime friend of Tom Dewey, has made the jump to Taft. Coca-Cola President Robert Woodruff is an Ikeman. A strong Eisenhower campaign might win Georgia delegates, TIME'S Atlanta bureau reports...
President Woodruff Randolph, is to "keep news free." But the I.T.U., which knows more about printing newspapers than editing them, really has its eye on another target. With costs rising, newspaper failures and mergers increasing, many an I.T.U. member has found himself frozen out of a job. Such labor-saving devices as teletypesetter machines (TIME, May 7) also worry I.T.U.; all the cities slated for the new dailies use teletypesetters...