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Successor. To take McNair's job on the home front came rugged, crusty old (65) Lieut. General Ben Lear. He had held the job before. In 1943 Whitey McNair made such a close-up inspection of U.S. troops in action on the African front that he was hit by German shell fragments, briefly hospitalized...
...Southern American Negro" was Frederick Ira Aldridge, the date 1826. Among his Desdemonas: Ellen Tree, whose husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
Americans often wonder what the British see in Punch. But one steady Punch contributor who easily hurdles all transatlantic barriers of humor is shy, blond, 35-year-old Rowland Emett. Emett is a daft satiric cartoonist in the English tradition of Max Beerbohm and Edward Lear. He is the producer of a fine series of affectionate burlesques of the British wartime scene. He is also, first & foremost, a comic master of an internationally favorite theme-the railway...
Members of this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
Richard Le Baron Goodwin, Nathan Clarence Greer, Goodwin Warner Harding, Norman John Hayes, James Sloane Higgins, Peter Iselin, Daniel Thomas Kelly, Jr., Joseph Michael Leahey, Walter Jay Lear, Alfred Dix Leeson, Charles Henry McCroskey, John Donald MacKinnon, Jr., William Lindsay Mosby, Kenneth Matthew Tate Munzert, Thompson Decker Orr, John Adams Paine, Jr., Cortlandt Parker, Jr., Parker de Sales Pitts, David Elliott Place, Frank Harrison Poole...