Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University of Redlands Lee A. DuBridge, president, California Institute of Technology L.H.D...
...second of May, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, gave his last lecture and retired. A great light of the Golden Age had dimmed...
From the moment he arrived in London for his six-week rock-'n'-roll tour of Britain, Tennessee's flaxen-haired Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, made himself at home in the headlines. The tiny, pony-tailed Mississippi schoolgirl he had brought with him, he proudly announced, was none other than his third wife, Myra. Her age: 15. When reporters gaped, Lewis, resplendent in blue velvet trousers, casually drawled: "I can assure you that my wife is all woman, even though she looks kinda young...
...explanation seemed perfectly satisfactory to Myra. "I love married life," she said, adding that though Jerry had been too busy to buy her a wedding ring, he did get her a red Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America...
...hazarding a buck and wing, he boasted: "I did four shows a day at McVickers' in Chicago right after the Armistice." And at twelve, he proudly recalled, he plugged songs with George Jessel at the old Imperial Theater in New York, later danced with Eddie Cantor and Lila Lee...