Word: eleanora
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...invented his characters. As Walter said, he gave the character of pool player Felson attributes fairly common to any pool player: "Some charm, some nerve and a vast supply of ignorance concerning matters unrelated to pool." Other than that, Fast Eddie Felson was a figment of Walter's imagination. ELEANORA TEVIS New York City
...Life at the Chilton has always been about pleasant conversation and intellectual discourse. Lectures, luncheons and theatre nights are the usual. Williams describes the eccentric Eleanora Sears during a ladies’ luncheon in 1932. The subject of the conversation was the personality of Hitler. Ms. Sears finally lost her patience and demanded that someone tell her who this Hitler was. The other ladies expressed amazement that she did not know. To this she responded indignantly, “I can’t be expected to know right off the bat the names of all the sophomores...