Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoving an 1,000-ton barge, the Federal Barge Lines' diesel towboat Harry Truman chuffed valiantly from New Orleans to St. Louis, failed by one hour and 17 minutes to match the 79-year-old record (three days 18 hrs. 14 min.) set by the steamboat Robert E. Lee...
...slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...
...reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the same unreconstructed way. He proudly displays the Stars & Bars alongside an autographed photograph of Robert E. Lee in his tiny, cluttered office, just as proudly boasts that the Gazette was the first and northernmost newspaper to raise a rebel yell in the Dixiecrats' cause...
Class of 1951--President--John Bresnahan, Judith Frost, Katherine Mathews, Carol Smith; Vice-President-- Baila Cohen, Lee Hurd, Rona Jaffe; Secretary--Ann Harrer, Meimel Robinson, Marllyn Welch; Treasurer --Alfreda Cuik, Helon Wolfe, Marie Woolaver; Council Representative--Mary Brandt, Sheila Brown, Rosemary Cochran, Sue Mulloy, Letitia Young...
Tasty hasty pudding and a neat hand with the quill won miss Lee Tyler, 20-year-old drum majorette from Newton, the title or Best Hasty Pudding Cook of 1949 from ballyhoo experts of the "Tomorrow Is Manana" staff last night...