Word: elliots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berry Wall owned his first race horse. He became a charter member of two jockey clubs, an amateur walking champion, a dead shot, a member of Manhattan's blue-blooded Old Seventh Regiment. Other members were various Schermerhorns, Belmonts, Harrimans, Rhinelanders, and Elliot Roosevelt, father of Eleanor. Says Wall: "I often wonder what he would think of his daughter and son-in-law now. Perhaps it is just as well not to wonder...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
...quarter of an hour had ticked away .when out from a nearby office exploded Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater, jumpy as a terrier. He hollered: "We've got it!" American Export had got CAA per mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already...
...Spanish tried to get the Rock back. In 1779-83 they and the French besieged it continuously, finally gave up when their fleet of ships reinforced with green timber, cork and rawhide was set afire by red-hot British cannonballs. In that long siege, British General Sir George Elliot lost in action only 333 out of 7,000 men in the face of attackers totaling 40,000. Britain offered to trade Gibraltar for Florida or for Minorca, but the Spanish refused. Spain offered to buy it for $10,000,000 and the British refused. By the 19th Century its value...
...Sophomore votes were discarded for the same reason. ELECTION RESULTS Juniors *Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. *Homer D. Peabody, Jr. 220 *Spencer A. Klaw 205 *E. Langdon Burwell 191 *Seth C. Crocker 187 *David D. Henry 179 Robert A. James 164 Joseph P. Lyford 152 Francis M. Simpson 149 Elliot L. Richardson 139 John F. Brooks 136 Alan Gottlieb 119 Benjamin A. Barnes 117 Sherman Gray 116 William P. Brown, Jr. 104 William F. Ketchum 99 William W. Tyng 91 David T. Gilbert 64 Joseph W. Gardella 58 William L. Healy, Jr. 57 TOTAL 485 INVALID 49 *Elected Sophomores *Loren...