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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth. Joe E. Brown played Elwood P. Dowd on the road; Bert Wheeler last summer spelled Frank Fay on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Folks at Home & Abroad | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...been found guilty, not of succumbing to the temptations of professional tennis, but merely of inquiring about them. A month ago in Manhattan, Pauline Betz had asked friends how well a pro tour with ex-Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke would draw. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, wrote a brazenly open letter to 1,200 tennis clubs here & abroad, suggesting that Pauline and Sarah might be willing to play on their courts for a small fee-say, $350 on weekdays and $500 on weekends. In natural bewilderment-for even a tennis amateur is not allowed to take money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Exit Pauline | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Recent subject of discussion by the Liberal Union was the F.E.P.C. set-up in Massachusetts--under the direction of Commissioner Elwood S. McKenney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Group Will Adopt Policy of Active Lobbying | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

Massachusetts' pioneering strides in fair employment practice legislation will be discussed by state F.E.P.C. Commissioner Elwood S. McKenney '38 at the spring term organizational meeting of the Liberal Union at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Speaker to Consider History Of State F.E.P.C. | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...Married. Major General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 42, Army Air Forces hero who (in 1929) served as relief pilot of the plane Question Mark on its spectacular endurance flight (nearly seven days aloft), was the wartime commanding general of the Ninth Fighter Command in England, flew 86 combat missions, now heads the Tactical Air Command; and Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam, . 29, granddaughter of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer and daughter of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bar Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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