Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour later, at Albany's tiny airport, he boarded a chartered United Air Lines plane for Chicago. The plane had blue "Draft Dewey" stickers in the windows. Also aboard were Mrs. Dewey, Advisers Paul Lockwood, Jim Hagerty, Elliott Bell, Hickman Powell, and a handful of reporters and radiomen. Flying west, Tom Dewey put the finishing touches to his acceptance speech, ate a quick dinner of grilled steak, salad and coffee...
Married. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 34, since April Colonel Elliott Roosevelt's second exwife; and Lieut. Colonel Harry T. Eidson, 34, onetime personal pilot for Colonel Roosevelt, decorated by him in North Africa a year ago; she for the second time, he for the first, in Fort Worth...
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime British War Secretary (1937-40) and Cynthia Elliott, 29, repatriated British war nurse; at Norbiton, Surrey. Long a confirmed bachelor, he once vowed that he would never marry because no woman could cook like his mother...
Died. Benjamin H. Marshall, 70, design-for-living architect; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. He. designed Chicago's Blackstone, Drake and Edgewater Beach hotels, New York's Maxine Elliott Theater and Philadelphia's Forrest, for himself designed a pink, gaudy, tricked-up house which boasted a Ming bed that slept seven, a dining table that came up with the soup course, sank to the kitchen below, came back with the chicken and gravy...
...preparing for the invasion's wounded, he and his Chief Surgical Consultant, Harvard's dynamic Dr. Elliott Cutler, insisted on one basic principle: chemotherapy is no substitute for prompt surgery. So they recruited numbers of good surgeons, organized them for front-line work, trained legions of Medical Corpsmen, litter bearers, ambulance drivers, aircraft crews, in expediting the wounded...