Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis Knight had lived in Mississippi all of his 23 years, except for three years in the Navy. He married blonde, blue-eyed Junie Lee Spradley and farmed a poor piece of land. One night the county police arrested him. Knight was a Negro, they said; Junie Lee was white. In Mississippi, that kind of marrying was against...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
Harvard Club of Seattle, Irving Clark, '41, 533 Dexter-Horton Building; Harvard Club of Syracuse, E. Tefft Banker '37, Hiscock, Cowle, Bruce, Lee and Mawhinney, Syracuse; Harvard Club of Washington, D. C., Captain William E. Eaton...
Pearson's Merry-Go-Round appears in 600 newspapers with 20 million circulation. (Estimated income to Pearson: $2,000 a week.) Then there's the radio. On Sunday nights he talks over ABC to 10 million people, for a weekly wage of $5,000 plus all the Lee hats (his sponsor) that he wants. His sponsors claim 77% accuracy for the predictions which, along with his disclosures, are his stock in trade. The batting average means little: "We can always boost it," a staffer explains candidly, "by predicting things like tomorrow will be Monday...
...Young Lee's Chinese restaurant on Boylston st. will be the scene of the next meeting at 1 p.m. January...