Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember being only mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in the main stateroom [of Franklin D. Roosevelt's houseboat, the Larooco], holding her in his sun-browned arms." So goes Elliott Roosevelt's account of his father's affair with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 20 years. In his already controversial forthcoming book An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott says that everyone within the family, including Eleanor, accepted Missy's intimacy with the President. Another skeleton Elliott rattles with apparent enthusiasm is that of Joseph...
What Joseph Lash didn't tell about Eleanor and Franklin in his recent bestselling, two-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, her second son Elliott was spelling out in the April issue of Ladies' Home Journal. In the first of two excerpts from his forthcoming book, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott writes that "Mother had performed her duty in marriage-five living children were testimony to that. She wanted no more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he contends, his mother...
HOWEVER, EVEN IF ALTMAN can't rewrite a script (mostly written by a hack, Leigh Brackett), or restrain the mugging of top-billed Elliott Gould, he is such a gifted director that his visuals and tossed-off stage business alone hold our interest. He crams his frames with different people doing interesting things, like gangsters taking off their clothes as a sign of group solidarity, or a Malibu Colony security guard impersonating Hollywood stars. If some of the shtiks misfire, Altman keeps on coming with others that don't. And aside from Gould and a stoned-out Sterling Hayden (Altman...
Receiving honorable mention for Harvard are goalie Joe Bertagna, defensemen Doug Elliott, Kevin Hampe and Mark Noonan, and forward Randy Roth...
Defense remains the big question mark for Harvard Three of the top four defensemen and the starting goalie are graduating. Captain Kevin Hampe, who has played steady hockey all season, along with Bob Muse and Doug Elliott move on, as does Joey Bertagna. Mark Noonan is the only one remaining of four regulars. Also returning on defense are Dave Hands and Levy Byrd. They saw action while Elliott was out with an ankle injury during the middle of the season, but that's about the only experience they...