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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen in Portland, Ore., who wanted the word from the sheriff's office did not call on big, tousle-haired Sheriff Mike Elliott to get it. Not that the sheriff might not see them at the courthouse if he was in a benign mood-it was just that he usually did nothing but snort: "Why do you guys keep calling me a politician? I'm a statesman. A statesman is for the people!" His news releases, however, could be obtained by going to Brownie's U-Drive and asking for Richard ("Brownie") Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Cinemactress Faye Emerson Roosevelt, third wife of Elliott for nearly five years, announced that she was getting a divorce just as soon as she finished work on her current movie, Guilty Bystander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Gatsby tries hard, in some respects, to be a good movie. Its musical score, costumes and sets show painstaking research and a kind of wistful desire to be true to the novel. In individual scenes, in fact, Elliott Nugent's shrewd direction achieves an illusion of complete authenticity. But there are signs aplenty of heavyhanded tampering and cutting, and an unconscionable distortion of the novel's tone and intention. Like most second-rate copies, Gatsby captures much of the detail, but defaults on the grand design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Elliott, Birnie Joe of 502 South 14th Street, Fort Smith, Ark.; Senior High, Fort Smith. Fordham, Rollin Hugh of 2637 Myrtle Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.; Central Senior High, Kansas City, Mo. Slighton, Robert Louis of 7440 Rupert Street, Richmond Heights, Mo.; Maple-wood High, Richmond Reights. Wallace, Robert Arthur of 1182 South Jefferson Street, Springfield, Mo.; Senior High, Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Professor Robert C. Elliott of the O.S.U. English Department, faculty advisor to the Wallaceites, had urged the members not to have Phillips speak. When Phillips appeared at the meeting Elliott resigned from his advisory position with the Wallace organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ohio State U Disowns Wallaceites | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

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