Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borglum was first commissioned to decorate Stone Mountain with the heads of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. When that job fell through, he turned to other heroes, spent 14 years hacking their heads out of Mount Rushmore. When he died in 1941, he left them looming, unfinished, over a vast dribble of scree...
...sounded good, but how good? Thomas Colt Jr., director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, had no idea. All he knew was that a wealthy Mrs. John Lee Pratt had willed to the museum her collection of the last Russian Czar's family trinkets...
...Crimson lineup: Snook, Harshman, g; Darrell, rf; Shafer, lt; Sparrow; rh; Gabler (capt.) eh; Hansen, lb; Welses, ro; Johnson, rt: Wogan, of; Wolf, H; Krogins, lo. Substitutes; Kosil, Elleanor, Knauth, Mathey, Halbert, Lee, Kempner, Goriton...
...black. The 3,459-seat house was 85% subscribed, the highest ever. Wagner's "Ring" cycle, one of its biggest drawing cards, will be back on the boards in new trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets by Broadway Designer Lee Simonson. Some scenes will be done for the first time with screen projections, an economy trick borrowed from the New York City Opera Co. Most of the glamorous old stars-Pinza, Pons, Traubel, Melchior-are back, and 14 new singers, six of them homegrown...
...railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented the three bedrooms in the house to guests, usually folks with tuberculosis or asthma. Gradually she expanded the house, but it took her until 1919 to show her first profit. As a village grew up around...