Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larry Darrel, a Chicago boy whose ready-made certainties were buried in World War I. He comes back from war unwilling to go to college, unwilling to settle down and marry wealthy Isabel Bradley-even indifferent to the Parisian fleshpots offered him by Isabel's expatriate Uncle Elliott. He wanders through Europe picking up saints and sinners, already feeling that "the sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over . . . the path to Salvation is hard." Each time he reappears among his friends he is a little more remote and baffling...
White Rule. Many a white Southerner believes that the Negro is a happy, simple creature who laughs and sings, content with his lot, unless he is "stirred up" by radical Yankee agitators. Summing up this popular philosophy last week, Mississippi's John Elliott Rankin lashed out: "The Negroes . . . are having their hope of peace and harmony with their white neighbors destroyed by ... parlor pinks in the Department of Justice [who] are already starting to harass the Southern states as a result of the blunder of the Supreme Court...
...full week. To Eleanor Roosevelt, winging down the coast of Brazil (see p. 19), he sent a message on their 39th wedding anniversary. Day before, Second Son Elliott had been sued for divorce by Wife Ruth Googins, mother of three...
Sued for Divorce. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, 33, husky, hard-eyed second son of President Roosevelt, now with the Army Air Forces in the European Theater; Fort Worth's black-haired, vivacious Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 35, in Texas. The Colonel met the then Miss Googins at a livestock show in Fort Worth, married her in 1933, five days after he was divorced by his first wife, Elizabeth, mother of William Donner Roosevelt, 12. Elliott was later dropped from the Social Register. Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt charged "unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct," asked for the custody of their three children...
Students planning to take the A.S.T.P. Reserve, V-12 test tomorrow must have their admission forms, obtainable at Little 11, in order to be admitted to the test which will be held in New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock sharp, warned Elliott Perkins, director of the Bureau of War information, yesterday. Promptness is essential. It will be wise to be there at 8:45 o'clock, he continued...