Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week, it was not quite true that Montgomery Ward's autocratic Sewell Lee Avery could not get along with anybody. He apparently got along with William L. Ready, president of U.S. Gypsum Co., of which Avery is also board chairman. As eleven senior officers and directors walked out of Montgomery Ward's in a year (TIME, May 31, 1948 et seg.), Avery liked to point to Keady to show that he could "get along with associates who function in their jobs...
Died. Edward Lee Thorndike, 74, since 1904 Columbia University's famed educational psychologist; of a heart ailment; in Montrose, N.Y. One of the creators of the original Army Alpha intelligence test used in World War I, he wrote more than 450 books and articles on experimental psychology and the nature of learning...
...went to Athens as a U.S. employee of the Allied Mission which supervised Greek elections. His progress was noisy. In Rome he got into a street argument with a U.S. Air Forces officer, Brig. General William L. Lee, and was slapped in the face for his pains. (The general was shortly reduced in rank.) In Athens Maragon announced himself as Harry Truman's great friend, waved a picture of himself and the President, and was finally ordered home as a nuisance...
...native American enthusiasm for rescues was tried to the utmost when a flash flood marooned 21-year-old Robert M. Lee on a rock 55 yards from the bank of South Carolina's Columbia Canal. A Navy blimp was flown from Savannah, Ga. to have a go at him and failed. But after twelve hours, two daredevils with an outboard motorboat managed to snake him, safe & sound, out of the torrent of white water...
...Harry Byrd's political future-bald, ruddy Francis Pickens Miller, 54, onetime Rhodes scholar, veteran of both World Wars, longtime New Dealer. Miller had the social background to appeal to many Byrd-backing Virginians (as a child, his mother had been taken for rides on General Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveller) and he had the support of Virginia's growing labor movement plus a large share of the Negroes, now voting in increasing numbers...