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Word: lee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lee J. Cobb, impressing Broadway with his depressing portrait of Willy, the hero of Death of a Salesman, was promoted to star billing, with his name on the marquee. Star Cobb, just back from five years of playing supporting roles in Hollywood, called it "the most rewarding experience of my professional life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Air Is Filled with Music | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

When fire destroyed her home in a Chicago suburb, 14-year-old Roberta Lee Mason rescued four brothers & sisters. But she was burned so badly that she had to be swathed in bandages from head to foot. Her throat-catching picture (TIME, Feb. 28) made front pages across the U.S. Soon money, clothes, even chewing gum began to pour in; everybody wanted to "do something for Roberta." But what the Masons needed was a new house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Something for Roberta | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Virginia Carroll '51, Lee Hurd '51, Jane Johnson '52, Miss Nichols, and Connaught O'Connell '52 will undertake the play's five feminine leads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Announces Feminine Leads | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Next, tabloid readers paused over the pictures of three sad-eyed youngsters gazing at their bandage-wrapped sister in a hospital bed. Fourteen-year-old Roberta Lee Mason had saved her five brothers and sisters from death when fire destroyed their home in a Chicago suburb. The "fire heroine," said the Mirror, was "wrapped in her white badge of courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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