Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producing honors easily went to the Theater Guild, whose two smashes, Othello and Jacobowsky, flank last season's smash-of-the-age Oklahoma! Highest acting honors were almost solidly male. In a dead heat for first place were Elliott Nugent for his superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus...
...into Mr. OCR's new boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that...
...popular women's club lecturer in the mid-'30s he whacked Mussolini, the Liberty League, Republicans. As an all-out interventionist when World War II began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation...
Free for All. In his new job, Mr. Elliott got off to a good start. He buttered up labor by arranging to consult with it-along with industry. He pleased factory owners by denouncing any scheme to protect competitive positions, i.e., prevent one plant from resuming civilian manufacture because a competitor was still doing war work. Small factories, which got a jackal's share of war contracts, are apparently to have the lion's share of the job of supplying U.S. civilians until...
...Elliott, a graduate of Vanderbilt and author of several books interpretating current history, commutes to Cambridge once a week to give Government...