Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth Negro to hold U.S. ambassadorial rank: the other three (all ambassadors to Liberia): Edward R. Dudley (1949-53), Jesse Dwight Locker (1953-55), Richard Lee Jones (since...
Barbara Ann Edwards was only 18, a tiny girl with a winning smile-especially when she looked at U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Ules Lee Barnwell Jr., 22, of Greenville, S.C. But in the year that they knew each other, neither Barbara Ann nor Lee Barnwell had much to smile about...
They had met and fallen in love in March 1958 at an academy dance, which Barbara Ann attended on crutches because of a foot broken in a skiing accident. By last December they were engaged, looking forward happily and hopefully to Lee Barnwell's graduation, when they could be married. Then their troubles began. Barbara Ann's foot did not heal properly, and she entered a Denver hospital for surgery. When she awoke from anesthesia after the operation, Air Cadet Barnwell was at her bedside. He had borrowed a car and driven from Colorado Springs to be with...
...until June 2, the day before the Air Force Academy's first graduation exercises, were Barbara Ann Edwards and Lee Barnwell reunited. Two days later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care...
...apparent key to the Detroit papers' success was that they raised prices only 1?-a strategy plotted by the Detroit Free Press's Executive Editor Lee Hills. "My theory," said Hills, "was that if you have been selling for years at 7? and you go up 1? that's just loose change, an extra penny, and the average reader doesn't care." Emboldened by their triumph-worth some $5,000 extra revenue a day to the Free Press and the News, $4,000 to the Times-Detroit publishers could foresee further steps in their painless, inch...