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...guest of honor, and Mrs. Baker had invited 58 guests-the clabbered creme of New York society-to dine with the duchess and join in the quickening whirl of a new social season. Among Mrs. Baker's glittering guests none were more striking than young William Woodward Jr., 35, the millionaire sportsman, and his wife...
Although he was a director of the Hanover Bank (the third generation of his family to be connected with the bank) and of half a dozen big corporations, Woodward was, in his own words, "not seriously interested" in business, and since his father's death two years ago he had been able to devote himself almost exclusively to his real interests: circulating through international society, racing his string of thoroughbred horses, and hunting big game in Africa and India. When he was not traveling abroad. Woodward divided his time between a Manhattan town house on East 73rd Street...
...Jordan, President of Radcliffe and Professor of History; Harry Levin, Assistant Professor of Education; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Professor of Botany; Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Director of General Education; and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loek Chemistry Professor...
...Still booting winners home when they pay the most, Jockey Eddie Arcaro scored a rich double at New York's Belmont Park. In the $60,580 Matron Stakes he won by a length with Claiborne Farm's favored Doubledogdare. In the $58,100 Woodward Stakes, he rode under the wire Clifford Mooers' Traffic Judge, winner by a head...
...country's foremost biochemists, Woodward has done research in the synthesis of quinine, cortisone, and lysergic acid...