Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columns of print in their Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
...them earnest but light things. Some, out & out musical gags, bore such titles as Thoughts Provoked on Becoming a Prospective Papa. Toscanini, who sometimes likes to indulge his ability to make a 24-hour sensation out of a young musician, announced that he would play a piece by "Jee-lee...
...combination of those superb scenes and a few other high points of dance specialist Kathryn Lee, however, with the usual quota of R & H songs beginning "When a fella ..." "It's a Darn Nice Campus," or "Come home, son, come home," is a little hard to take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast...
Right halfback Lee Lothram provides the aerial power, while Jim Formwalt can perform variegated chores on the other flank. Sure to see action is Stan Kulakowski, a definite threat in the tailback position...
Died. Lieut. General Robert Lee Bullard, 86, World War I commander of the Second U.S. army, whose aggressive tactics at Chateau-Thierry, the second battle of the Marne, and the Argonne earned him the nickname of "CounterAttack Bullard" on Governors Island, N.Y. Alabama born Bullard once shocked fellow Southerners by announcing: "I would rather have been named for General Sherman than for General Lee. Sherman knew how to fight...