Word: woodward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father despised publicity," said Elizabeth Woodward Pratt. "As children, we were never allowed to be photographed." Her father, the late William Woodward, was a topflight U.S. banker, a figure in authentic Manhattan society and, as master of Belair Stud (Gallant Fox, Omaha), one of the most widely respected sportsmen on two continents. Last week the glare of worldwide publicity beat in a way it never had before on the Woodward family. Had the wife of William Woodward Jr. deliberately shot him in that darkened hallway in their Long Island home? Was it an accident? Was there a connection between...
...Farmer's Daughter. Ann Woodward was born nearly 40 years ago on a farm four miles west of Pittsburg, Kans. (pop. 20,000) and named Angeline Luceil (later Lucille) Crowell. At some time in her rise to fame and fortune she shucked seven years from her age, along with most other details of her ordinary but respectable past...
That night, after returning from the party and retiring, said Ann Woodward, she was aroused by a noise. Taking up the shotgun at her bedside, she crept into the hallway that separated her bedroom from her husband's. In the gloom, she told the cops, she saw a "shadow" across the hall. She fired twice, heard a body fall. Then she switched on the lights, with the dawning realization that it might be her husband and not a prowler...
...Belair Stud was established by Woodward's great-uncle and developed by his father, a famed breeder of horses. It has produced three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha and Johnstown), as well as Nashua, this year's champion three-year-old and top money-winner...
Died. William Woodward Jr., 35, socialite and tiger-hunting sportsman, owner of the famed Belair Stud (the colt Nashua); in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...