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Negro leaders tended toward restraint. Some of the extreme militants, who actively oppose interracial romance, nattered a bit. Many others, such as Martin Luther King, preferred to view the match as a personal affair. "Individuals marry," said King, "not races." The Rev. James Woodruff of St. Anselm's Episcopal Chapel in Nashville, Tenn., observed: "Most people were surprised. They feel she was a pretty lucky girl to get such a promising young man. I feel that way too." At the A. Philip Randolph Institute in New York City, headquarters of the intellectual Bayard Rustin, the comment for publication...
Died. Robert E. Woodruff, 83, boss of the Erie Railroad (now Erie-Lack-awanna) from 1939 to 1956; of cancer; in Delray Beach, Fla. "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" was the name for the four-times bankrupt Erie in 1939 when Woodruff, then one of the road's few able executives, took over as a court-appointed trustee. He needed only two years to get the company out of receivership; a year later, as president, he was able to announce a $1 common-stock dividend-first for the hapless Erie in 69 years...
Fanning quit as editorial director of the Chicago-based Publishers' Newspaper Syndicate last September and moved to Alaska after marrying Kay Woodruff Field, second wife of his onetime boss, Marshall Field Jr. Once settled with Kay and her three children, he began looking around for a paper to run, finally bought a 79.4% interest in the News from Publisher Norman C. Brown for an estimated...
...movement has been harshly criticized by other intellectuals, both Catholic and secular. Douglas Woodruff, editor of England's leading Catholic weekly, The Tablet, has dubbed the New Left thinkers "the church's Red Guards" and dismissed their Christian Marxism as "nefarious nonsense." Cambridge's Raymond Williams, a radical, non-Christian socialist, notes a certain irony in the fact that the Catholic Left is espousing Marxism as an ideology precisely at a time when Communist governments in Eastern Europe are becoming more pragmatic. The Red Guards admit that they are open to criticism, but still insist that...
...reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon Johnson, and a revival in the popularity of the name of Roosevelt...