Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie said he had overheard the columnist-Lee Mortimer of the New York Daily Mirror-refer to him as "that Dago son of a bitch." So he hit him in the jaw, once, and knocked him down. Mortimer said he was "just minding my own business"-leaving the place with an Oriental girl friend-when Frankie snuck up behind him and hit him back of the left ear. Then, said Mortimer, "at least two men" held him and he was slugged some more...
Also lacking were a provisional constitution and a new name for the group, since, under College rules, they could not use the name of a national organization. Lee Marsh, intercollegiate director of AYD, who has been here for two days, affirmed that the local chapter would be autonomous, "deciding all its own policies...
...forced to listen to radio programs wherever he wandered. For to even the casual ear--provided its owner is someone halfway bright--present-day American radio is an unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest, and columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils...
...Bannon) and the cop's girl (Nina Foch). Powell can take some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such coy head-jerkings and pregnant silences that only a hardened whodunit fan can be sure of what's going...
...sisterly Radcliffe Music Club carried the ball during the war until enough soldiers came home to put the Harvard club on a sound and active footing. Under President Lee, the combined group took a formal turn with regular monthly meetings held in the Music Building and marked by the presence of some of Boston's leading musicians and the absence of beer and sofas...