Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Herbert Mize Jr. is an Episcopal minister who is conducting an experiment. That experiment has sometimes roused the good citizens of Ellsworth, Kans. to unholy wrath. But this week Kansans were digging down as usual to give Mize the money he needs for his St. Francis Boys' Home. Said one bank vice president wonderingly: "This man is Christlike, all right, but he's a genius at raising money...
...unmarried vicar he was often asked to board paroled reform-school boys. The boys' response to his decent treatment kept Minister Mize pondering the problems of "exceptional children," as he likes to call delinquents. In 1945, when he learned that the vacant Poor People's Home at Ellsworth could be rented cheaply, "Father Bob" seized the opportunity to put some pet theories into practice...
Yale Professor (of geography) Ellsworth Huntington was short (5 ft. 2 in.), with an exceptionally large, bald head. He was so deaf that he could study unconcerned while the University band umpahed on the same floor of Hendrie Hall and the Glee Club bellowed "Bulldog" directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best...
...next step was getting somebody tougher to play against. Perry Jones got Ellsworth Vines, ex-amateur champion turned pro, the hardest hitter tennis had ever seen. Ellie Vines, Benefactor No. 3, agreed to play young Jake three times a week for five months...
Right now Jake is pretty tired of hotels and laundry problems. As soon as possible he is going back home to Montebello, just outside Los Angeles, and he is looking forward to playing some golf-which he hopes to take up seriously some day, as Ellsworth Vines did after he made almost $200,000 out of pro tennis. (Last week, by tying in the Reno Open, Vines added $1,600 to the approximately $50,000 he has earned in five years as a golf pro.) Late in the month, Kramer will play in the Pacific Southwest Championships at the cement...