Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elwood D. Boynton...
Collapsible Francis Xavier Shields ran true to form and collapsed in the third round. Sidney Wood's erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's brave but hopeless stand against methodical Frankie Parker. In the other semifinals, Ecuador s pigeon-toed Pancho Segura learned once again that his two-fisted drives and self-satisfied "Bravos" were no match for Bill Talbert's power strokes. Talbert won easily at the cost of a twisted knee...
That set the stage for the preordained finale. But first Sarah Palfrey Cooke, back at Forest Hills after four years, recovered her abdicated singles throne. With green-ribboned pigtails flying, she beat Pauline Betz 3-6, 8-6, 6-4, and earned a husbandly kiss from Elwood...
...Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then LeMay concentrates on Japan...
Volunteers. On the day before this crisis, slim, restless Major General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, commander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, had popped into the headquarters of 40-year-old Major General Elwood Ricardo Quesada, head of one of the Ninth's chief components-the IX Tactical Air Command, whose fighter bombers were stationed back of the First Army. "Van" Vandenberg and "Pete" Quesada went over reports, decided that this was the real thing. The immediate task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts...