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AFTER a period of years on the French the N. Y. Herald Tribune, James turned to find friend Elliot a perennial youth in way plays which, like Kempy and Poor Nugents, father and son, had written for to play in. Both Nugent and Thurber are to be characters in the Poor Nut, a college play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHT | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Elliot who went to the land of squirrel-dodgers. He turned Hollywood actor, Ohio State haunted hi. He played leads in movies as College Life and College Window. To break the jinx, he turned director, so he made She Loves Me Not (in which Bing Crosby was a Princeton student) and College Scandals. By this time people every where were studying Thurber's nonsensical "telephonebooth" drawings in the New Yorker and laughing at whatever they thought the drawings meant. James Thurber has written an autobiography, My Lige and Hands and collaborated on Is Sex Necessary? Elliot, no such questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHT | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Intercepting a pass on his own ten-yard line, Elliot B. Knowlton '38 ran 90 yards to tally the losers' first score, but Lowell failed to convert. In the third period Knowlton ran back a punt to the Deacons' 20-yard stripe, Mark H. Cornell '37 shot a pass to A. Judson Wells, Jr. '38, Knowlton gained seven yards off tackle, and Clarence A. Beehower, Jr. '37 scored from the three-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

Divorced. Harry King Curtis, son of the late Vice President Charles Curtis; by Mrs. Beatrice Elliot Curtis, 35; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Elliot Perkins, Lowell House tutor, as faculty adviser of the organization, declared that he did not consider himself a "bulwark" between the club and the dean's office but that he was glad to do what he could about getting rid of the Roosevelt administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPUBLICAN CLUB MADE WITH HAMMOND AT HEAD | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

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