Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same meeting, Richard C. Lee, Mayor of New Haven, Conn., deplored the lack of federal participation in housing programs and urban renewal. "The plight of the American city is the greatest domestic issue of the 20th century," he declared...
Behind the well-starched prose of this memo, sent out last week by the U.S. Army's Adjutant General Robert Lee, lay the sleepless vigilance of the organization known for short as P.O.A.U., and for long as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. P.O.A.U. has been increasingly uneasy about what it views as an excessive growth of Roman Catholic influence in the armed forces (and elsewhere), specifically in the promotion of chaplains. But P.O.A.U.'s uneasiness mounted to anxiety when it caught wind of what seemed to its officials a movement to dedicate...
...financial dipsy-doodling, none is more involved than a deal set up by a pair of film writers named Martin L. Rackin and John Lee Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat...
...Crimson's Joel Landau turned in a creditable performance, taking fourth in the high hurdles. Landau's opposition, probably the finest hurdle field ever assembled in this part of the country, included Lee Calhoun of North Carolina, the reigning Olympic champion; Keith Gardner of Nebraska, the Big Eight king; and Charlie Pratt of the Philadelphia Pioneers, a former national decathlon winner...
...said last night, the Crimson contestant, whether he is captain A1 Gordon, Dave Brahms, or Zab Warren, should do well in a field which New England's finest middle-distance runners. Joel Landau should make a good showing in the high hurdles, even though he will be up against Lee Calhoun, Elias Gilbert, and Francis Washington, perhaps the U.S.'s three best in that event...