Word: elliott
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Died. Dr. George Elliott MacKinnon, 65, bluff, beloved country doctor, who won fame when hundreds of his former patients turned out to celebrate "Doc MacKinnon" day (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945); after long illness; in Prentice, Wis. In 30 years he delivered 3,000 babies, wore out 17 cars, a sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile...
...Elliott Springs's bottom harness and bosom bolster advertising [TIME, July 26] is the most refreshing contribution to the gaiety of the nation since the advent of the Petty girl...
After he left Princeton in 1917, Elliott Springs trained as a pursuit pilot, became the nations No. 3 ace in World War I by downing eleven enemy planes. Back home, he continued as a hell-for-leather test pilot and barnstormer until his plane caught fire and crashed in the first U.S. cross-country race. The damage prompted Springs to start a much duller career in the family's mills...
...father soon fired him because of such screwball antics as "buzzing" the mills in a plane. Not unhappily, Elliott went back to Paris, had his ulcered stomach fitted out with an artificial duodenum, started writing. His sardonic War Birds helped start the cycle of wartime aviation books in the late '20s. Springs followed it with nine lesser stories (e.g., Leave Me with a Smile, Who Steals My Pants Steals Trash), which brought a total of $250,000 from such magazines as McClure's, and as bestsellers and scenarios...
Convinced that anyone who could make money on "such tripe" could certainly run a cotton mill, father Springs took his son back as a vice president (after making him promise that he would write no more books). Since the elder Springs's death in 1931, Elliott, who still flies his own plane, has run the family's vast (some 550,000 spindles) cotton empire, one of the three biggest...