Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Holm Rose, now in Panama with her husband on a world tour, revealed an old prejudice. Why had she been ignoring the fine Latin American beaches? Said she: "I have never enjoyed swimming, since Billy made me swim in the Aquacade in the chilly New York...
Washington could hardly wait for the trial of Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the trial date, attorneys for the Countess summoned newsmen. They were handed an announcement of an agreement by all parties to settle out of court...
Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan has vetoed junior and sophomore class plans to hold their joint spring formal at Boston's Hotel Somerset, junior class vice-President Eleanor Larsen announced yesterday...
...Never again," said U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, would she accept a compromise in the United Nations merely to win Soviet support for something everyone else had agreed on. For three years Delegate Roosevelt has tried her level best to get along with the Russians. Last week, in a speech at Washington, she conceded that it hadn't seemed to work. "I don't think I will ever compromise again even on words," she said. "The Soviets look on this as evidence of weakness rather than as a gesture of good will...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...