Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MORMON CHRONICLE: THE DIARIES OF JOHN D. LEE (1848-1 876)-Edited by Robert Glass Cleland & Juanita Brooks -Two volumes (824 pp.)-The Huntington Library...
Though CAAdministrator Lee pleaded -and with reason-that he was hampered by a shortsighted appropriation policy in Congress, many airmen feel that he did not fight hard enough for more funds. Recently, stirred by the criticism, the CAA proposed its own compromise plan for a $916 million expenditure over the next five years...
...John D. Lee was so bad at spelling that he called his diary his "Diarhea." This makes no odds, because by any other name Lee's Diaries would still remain one of the most extraordinary documents ever written by an American...
...gold-plated Audie, first cousin to the Oscar: best actor, the late James (East of Eden) Dean; best actress, Jennifer (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) Jones; most promising new personalities (actor and actress), Tab (Battle Cry, Track of the Cat) Hunter and Peggy (Pete Kelly's Blues) Lee; best movie, Warner Bros.' Mr. Roberts...
This fact has not been recognized before simply because Lee's Diaries have never been published, except for short bits. California's Huntington Library acquired the manuscripts in 1929 from the descendants of the man to whom Lee gave it a few days before his death. Edited and footnoted with care and devotion (but indifferently indexed), the Diaries are unquestionably an important historical find...