Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General George Washington when he was in the field, was acquired for $10,000 (part of it donated anonymously to the U.S.) by the National Park Service, which will pitch it in a historical park in Yorktown, Va. The sellers: four Virginia ladies, all heiresses of General Robert E. Lee. In the line of inheritance, the old tent went first to Washington's widow Martha, later to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, and from him to his daughter Mary Anne Custis Lee, wife of the great Confederate commander...
...footlights, and there before the curtain stood a tall, grey man whose daring dancing had once shocked the purists and made history in the dance. Ted Shawn, 63, is at home before any audience, but this audience was his special home-Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then the Danes took over and proved...
Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb conducts a celebration of Dixieland jazz, starring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee. Janet Leigh...
LIANG-SHEN LEE Hanover...
Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...