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...Southern California. Every few hours, night & day, a second plane rose up, jockeyed a hose into position on the droning Fokker, poured gas into its thirsty tanks. After six days, the Fokker glided back to earth. Its bone-tired pilots, among them a stocky, ruddy-skinned Army lieutenant named Elwood Richard Quesada, * had just hung up a world's endurance record...
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...usual, the Atomic Energy Commission released only a few guarded bits of information. The next U.S. atom-bomb tests (which may be in progress already) will be held on remote Eniwetok Atoll. They will be made by Joint Task Force Three, commanded by Lieut. General Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada of the Air Force and including personnel from the three armed services, civilian government agencies, and the AEC and its contractors. No one except members of the task force will be allowed closer than 200 miles from the guarded atoll...
...Joel Mandelbaum '53 was elected president of the Liberal Union Tuesday night. Elwood A. Rickless '51 was voted vice-president...
Harvey (Universal-International), as playgoers learned in 1944, is an invisible rabbit well over six feet tall, the boon companion of a gentle, friendly lush named Elwood P. Dowd. The movie adapters of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize comedy have blessedly resisted the temptation to coax Harvey into full view.* Up to a point, they have even managed to recapture some of the Broadway production's daffy charm and prankish fun, and they have kept all of Josephine (Arsenic and Old Lace) Hull as its fluttery leading lady...