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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown-eyed Betty Sanders of Brooklyn sang The Mighty Atom Bomb ("Hear the squawking friends of Hearst, they think we ought to use it first"); Lee Hays, son of an Arkansas preacher, told of his Rankin Tree ("It poisoned my potatoes, it poisoned my squash . . ."), and a pretty young union maiden named Eleanor Young did a slightly bawdy ballad about Mary Lee of the Bourgeoisie ("I've married Joe of the C.I.O."). Other topics: the Western Union strike, Churchill and Franco, housing ("I spend my days in Central Park and my nights on the I.R.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hootenanny | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...became secretary of the Department of Physical training in 1919, when compulsory athletics were inaugurated for all Freshman by Roger I. Lee '02, professor of Hygiene. Van Wyck gays that "Lee and William H. Greer did such an outstanding planning job, that no substantial changes have been necessary from the outset of the free elective program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Wyck Retires From HAA After 50 Years' Service | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

John Robert Lee Keig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

William Green Lee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

When they heard about his dismissal, Kestler's entire staff (51 enlisted men, three officers) forthwith entered requests for transfer. To correspondents, Kestler poured out a bitter account of Lee's heavy-handed interference with G.I. journalism. The General's attitude toward enlisted men, said he, was like that "of an old Southern plantation owner toward his slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Courthouse Lee's Retreat | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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