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Musine Diastole. This roster of rodentry was cited last week by Zoologist Charles Elton of Oxford University. In his 496-page study, Voles, Mice and Lemmings (Oxford; $10), Zoologist Elton investigates one of nature's strangest mysteries-why, all over the planet, hordes of such rodents pop up out of the earth from time to time. Small, silent, fleet, these musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved...
...YANKEE STARGAZER: THE LIFE OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH - Robert Elton Berry-Whittlesey...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...
Little Oklahoma. Watching the coming of the Okies as closely as Novelist Steinbeck was a Salinas grower named Elton Hebbron, a middleaged, easygoing man who owned about 120 rolling acres east of Salinas that could not be profitably farmed. He cut it up into small lots, sold it to migrants for $300 to $400 a lot on easy terms, made money. By 1935 the plot was a swarming, crowded, unsightly assemblage of trailers, tents, rusting jalopies, shacks, like innumerable other Little Oklahomas beside farm towns...
Another group advocating the Duke's return is the "Henchmen of Honor," founded by retired British Barrister Robert Elton. The "Henchmen" have appealed to the Duke to come to England, have received no reply. Lawyer Elton, independently seeking to reseat the Duke on the throne, bases his case on the claim that the 1936 Abdication Act, while passed by Parliament, is illegal because it was not a mandate from the people. Fortnight ago, however, his cause received its first legal setback. Founder Elton's statement of claim that the Act was "illegitimate" was refused a hearing...