Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott Roosevelt planned a U.S. lecture tour, and Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph reportedly had the same idea. (A possible brothers-under-the-skin act nobody would talk about: a debate between the two.) But first Elliott had to finish writing a book. It was about his father's role in world affairs, and "the story of my father's thinking...
...reconverted faster than his brothers, all of whom were also in the service. Franklin Jr., 31, is practicing law in New York City; Elliott, 35, is second vice president of a newly formed company to start a radio station in Camden, Ark.; James, 38, is the salaried director of political organization of the Independent Com mittee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions...
...Christmas dinner and play were planned to coincide with the birthday of A. Lawrence Lowell, President of the University from 1909 to 1933, which fell on December 13. Before his death in 1943, the late ex-President annually attended these celebrations, at which he cut his huge birthday cake, Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell, will speak briefly at dinner, prior to the play, in honor of the former president...
...Elliott Roosevelt's famed Apriority bull mastiff, Blaze, 125 lbs., won a bloody encounter with 20-lb. Fala on the lawn at) Hyde Park. He lost to Malvina Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt's companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed...
Asked what the vestry of St. James' would do about the Bishop's bolt from the blue, Senior Warden Edmund Pendleton Rogers said: "I certainly think the vestry wouldn't go against Bishop Manning." Vestryman-elect Elliott Roosevelt (who had not asked to be a vestryman) said nothing...