Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the University of North Carolina, Psychologist Charles R. Elliott pronounced himself satisfied with two years of tests on Max Sherover's cerebrograph-a combination record-player, electric clock and pillow microphone. Elliott had selected 15 three-letter words (boy, egg, say, art, run, not, sir, leg, bag, row, ice, out, age, box, eat) and recorded them. Then he picked 40 students, all with perfect hearing, as his guinea pigs...
...Recesses. When they awakened, all the guinea pigs listened to the list. Those who had heard it in their sleep learned it by heart in practically no time. Those who had never heard it took much longer. Elliott concluded that sleep-teaching is similar to reteaching something a person has temporarily forgotten...
Things were seasonably merry on the Christmas-tree farm at Hyde Park. Elliott Roosevelt, who owns the business with his mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...
...usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius...
There are two crack halfbacks on Michigan's unbeaten team, which ran wild last week against Wisconsin (40 to 6) to win the Big Nine Championship and a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Bump Elliott is good on both offense and defense, but trigger-armed Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), a specialist, is more spectacular. The only trouble with a backfield made up of the nation's four most touted backfield stars-Lujack, Conerly, Walker and Chappuis-is that there isn't a fullback among them...