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Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination...
...Elihu Yale-ninth-generation descendant of the original's Uncle Tom-registered at Yale as a freshman...
...Elihu O. Silverman '49--Franny Meyers...
Sickles was now in his 80s. To William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, says author Pinchon, he was a valued counselor; to veterans an adored hero. ("It is my guess," observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with...
Close on the train of Prince Henry, Luigi Amedo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Prince of Savoy, was granted the Doctor of Laws in 1907. His award was given in the same year that such American notables as James Bryee, Elihu Root, Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, and Woodrow Wilson were similarly honored by the University...