Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweepers had the week off while the Big 20 played in an invitation tourney at Miami. Some of them, sadder & wiser, have gone home. Others, looking at thinning wallets decided to stay and try out just one more tournament, at Jacksonville this week. Among them: onetime Tennis Champ Ellsworth Vines, who gave up tennis competition in 1940, took up golf, which he said was more challenging and less monotonous. His low-70 golf puts him on the outer fringes of the Big 20. A year ago he set aside $15,000 to make himself a pro champ. Said he last...
...Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...difference was that when war building ended, Lockheed was better prepared for peace than any other company. Both Lockheed's rise and its ability to keep its altitude after war's end were devoutly attributed by Lockheed men to the eccentric talents of their president, Robert Ellsworth Gross...
...Ellsworth ("Sonny Boy") Wisecarver, who started making tabloid headlines at 14 when he ran away from home with an unmarried mother of two (TIME, May 15, 1944), did it again at 16-this time with Mrs. Eleanor Deveny, wife of a Japan-based G.I. After the pair were arrested in Oroville, Calif., Mrs. Deveny said: "I would like to take care of Sonny the rest of my life, and not on a motherly basis." Los Angeles Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott was impressed-"If Ellsworth gets into any more of these jams, he will be the most sought-after...
...declared the U.S. Patent Commissioner, Henry L. Ellsworth, in 1844. Men were still goggle-eyed over the recent invention of Morse's telegraph, Howe's sewing machine, Goodyear's vulcanized rubber, McCormick's reaper. Many agreed with Ellsworth that science must be near the end of its rope...