Word: lee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among U. S. citizens who listened, hair-on-end, to Actor Orson Welles's Martian newscast (TIME, Nov. 7) was a doddypolled 22-year-old airplane mechanic named Cheston Lee Eshleman. More piqued than panicked, he got an idea. He wanted to pay the Martians a return visit, stake out a refuge for "harmless people" during the next war. Secretly, he wrote to Britain for maps and other information that would be useful in a transatlantic flight...
...gallons (which, he later explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence he could glide the rest of the way). He took off again, headed north over a fog-blanketed Atlantic. By the time Owner Walz had raised the alarm for his $2,600, uninsured monoplane, Cheston Lee Eshleman was skittering hither & yon, munching chocolate, trying to find a hole...
...Earth's gravitational pull and far from Europe, his fuel line broke and he pancaked into the Atlantic about 175 miles southeast of Boston. A trawler fished him dripping from the sea, seconds after the monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York Journal and American...
...miles west of Midway Island. In the same seas, 40 feet high, the liner President Coolidge was running' through a typhoon, her speed slowed to six knots. From the Sea Dragon Captain Welch radioed to Dale Collins, executive officer of the President Coolidge: Southerly gales, Squalls. Lee rail under water. Hard tack. Bully beef. Wet bunks. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here instead of me. Welch, Master...
...League wants to get Protestants to vote, to enter public life; to disseminate Protestant news; to dramatize Protestantism's part in U. S. history. Denying that it is anti-Catholic, the League also denies that it will make use of boycotts. Said Deputy City Treasurer John Park Lee, chief layman in the League: "Because of Catholic pressure. Americans got only a one-sided report of the Spanish conflict. . . . We must never be guilty of the same thing...