Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film also shows a Tarzan who has evolved in a wide arc from the original character of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, first played on the screen by the late Elmo Lincoln in 1918. Compared to Elmo, who was built like a water tower and once -on the set-killed a lion that tried to rough him up, the Tarzans of mid-century are sissies. Tarzan's dialogue, over the years, has improved from a simple grunt to almost literate palaver...
Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...
...Seat. In Oklahoma City, after suspected Shoplifter Elmo Dolling Jr. eluded two store clerks, raced two blocks by foot and dashed into an office building for refuge, he dropped into a chair, exhausted and out of breath, discovered Loo late that he was sitting in the sheriff's office interrogation room...
...called "News Development Editor," with the task of applying newsmagazine techniques to daily reporting, went Arthur Twining Hadley II, Yale '49, onetime (1950-56) staffer on Newsweek. Other additions: Society Gossipist Charles Ventura, longtime international-set reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun; Elmo Wilson's World Poll, first globe-girdling opinion survey to appear in any U.S. daily; Newsweek Staffer Terry Ferrer as education editor...
...Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips. The few crewmen who slept managed little more than brief dozes ("You can't relax," said one crewman. "Too many things on your mind...