Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual service, but this is the first year the families were able to select the kind of food that was delivered. The packages contained the traditional plum pudding and pumpkin pie as the trimmings for the turkey meal in addition to the specific requests of the families George Lee '51 headed the committee, which included David Ashendon and George Chases, both...
Secrets In the City. The sons of a Syracuse peddler, 73-year-old Lee and 68-year-old Jacob J. (for nothing) Shubert were already stage-struck in 1885 when an older brother, Sam, got a job as an extra with a visiting road company at $1 a week. When they found that program boys got $1.50 a week, the three brothers switched to the commercial side, and in a few years were leasing theaters-and putting on shows-in Rochester, Albany, Troy, Utica and Buffalo as well as Syracuse...
...newspapers. It forced them for a while to put out their own paper (the New York Review) to get publicity, and made them secretive ever after. In 1905, Sam, the acknowledged leader of the family, died when the train he was riding ran into a carload of dynamite; Lee and Jake have never traveled together since. But Jake and Lee went on to fight with drama critics, bar them from theaters, and are said to have issued a manifesto that they wanted to be called "the Messrs. Shubert," not "Jake and Lee...
...Lee and Jake doggedly formed a new company which bought the old firm's assets for $400,000, and began building their present smaller but much less vulnerable empire. Completely self-sufficient, it includes a script company (which owns more than 1,000 shows), a music publishing company, a scenery-and-costume company, and the Trebuhs (Shubert spelled backwards) Realty Co., which, with the Shubert Theater Corp., owns 16 of the 32 legitimate theaters in New York, owns or controls 21 outside...
From his twelve-by-twelve office in the Shubert Theater, Lee (Broadway's most famous "bachelor" until his secret wedding came out when he was sued recently for divorce) manages the Manhattan dominion of the empire, while Jake tends more to the colonies. They often work together on producing, have turned out as many as 16 shows in one season. Their formula: "All plays have to have love interest. If you have no love interest, you have no play...