Word: elliots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliot Weston Clark...
...outgrowth of the American genre is the detective farce, of which Craig Rice (and Elliot Paul, in a different way) is an exponent. She invests unholy living and heinous dying with a high atmosphere of mixed excitement and amusement. The excitement is provided by realism of a sort-the realism which goes with the ruthlessness of gangsters and other criminal ugliness-and it is set to dialogue of the Hemingway type...
...Ahead. Older chaplains, wiser in the ways of parish life, found readjustment less difficult but still far from easy. The rector of St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church, Yonkers, N.Y., the Rev. Lynde Elliot May III, 40, entered the Navy in November 1942, served as a "flotilla chaplain" during the invasion of Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted...
Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
Commenting on the announcement Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau, emphasized that the Navy Department has rescinded its regulation disqualifying men with more than two terms of college training already behind them. Several men previously rejected as candidates and now enrolled in the College, he asserted, will be directly affected by the new ruling...