Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Medical Corps' pint-sized Major Sammy Lee, 35, twice (1948, 1952) Olympic high-diving champion, 1953 winner of the Sullivan Trophy as the U.S.'s outstanding amateur athlete, and a Korean war veteran, disclosed that two Southern California real-estate men recently gave him a rough time when he was shopping for a $12,000 house. His sin: California-born Dr. Lee is of Korean ancestry. Explained one real-estate man to him: "I'm sorry, Doctor, but I have to eat, and I'd lose my job for selling to a nonwhite...
...exception: Utah's arch-conservative J. Bracken Lee, foe of the United Nations and federal aid programs. In Chicago last week Republican Lee said he would bolt to the "right" kind of Democrat running against Ike. By the right kind of Democrat, Bracken Lee seems to be thinking of James Buchanan or Grover Cleveland...
...which contributes heavily-through Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, et al. -to the high decibel nonsense that TV calls "children's programs." indulged last week in a novel, if mild, experiment in selfcriticism. It made public a report of its Children's Program Review Committee, which took a generally dim view of the network's kid shows...
while in the lee of the Great Pyramid, a bearded dragoman told the Irishman's fortune: "Here in your hand I see nine rivers that you must cross . . . When you have reached the last river, you will . . . find what you have been looking...
...Lee) Russell Kelce, 58, was elected president of Peabody Coal Co., the nation's No. 2 commercial coal producer (No. 1: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal), succeeding Otto Gressens, who became board chairman. Son of a Pittsburg, Kans. miner, Kelce went into the pits at 15, by the time he was 22 owned his own mine in Oklahoma. In 1924 Kelce moved into small Sinclair Coal, which actually owned no mines and acted only as a coal seller. In a few years he made the Sinclair group into one of the nation's biggest producers, with 17 mines...