Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allan P. Sindler '48--Lee Weiss (Brooklyn...
Never rising above its environment, the Fred Rath and Lee Sands farce is about a couple of Coney Island tin-horns, Benny Baker and Sid Melton, who whitewash an elephant and pass him off, in the disapproved carnival style, as a sacred and genu-wine Indian white pachyderm. Things get more elaborate, but the plot is never much thicker than the coat of whitewash...
...Sometime followers of the Republocrat line: Senators Josiah Bailey (North Carolina), Harry F. Byrd (Virginia), Peter G. Gerry (Rhode Island), Pat McCarran (Nevada), W. Lee O'Daniel (Texas), David I. Walsh (Massachusetts) ; Representatives Fritz Lanham (Texas), Carter Manasco (Alabama), John Rankin (Mississippi), Howard Smith (Virginia), Hatton W. Sumners (Texas), Carl Vinson (Georgia...
...Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made U.S. literary history 30 years ago, and who was last in the news when he was found broke, ill and half-starved in Manhattan in 1944, won a high-timely $5,000 fellowship at 76. Donors: the Academy of American Poets. Observed Poet Masters, resting his way back to health in Charlotte, N.C.: "Poets in America find it hard even to make a living. I personally am very grateful." Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 28-year-old historian (The Age of Jackson), won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a "political-intellectual history...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., son of Harvard's Francis Lee Higginson, professor of history. -Boston Globe, April...