Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last November pretty, blonde Guri Lie showed her father a report in a Norwegian newspaper that he might become secretary of UNO. Big, bluff Trygve Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee) boomed: "What is this? Why do they suggest me?" Trygve Lie knew that they would not pick him for his suavity (nil), for his international experience (limited), or for his brain (good, but not dazzling). Last week UNO, a more rugged organization than anyone expected, picked rugged Trygve Lie for character...
...rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your Own Sweet Darling Wife, with which 0'Daniel sang his way into the Texas Governorship and the U.S. Senate...
George Gershwin: Jazz Concert (Eddie Condon and his orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Condon's guitar gives rhythm to Jack Teagarden's fine trombone, Bobby Hackett's clean, relaxed trumpet and Singer Lee Wiley's blue do on Someone to Watch over Me and The Man I Love. Along for the ride are Condonites Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield and others. Performance: good...
...success because the actors themselves have a stake in it. The program was started and is owned by the Masquers Club, whose members are Hollywood stars. Campbell Soup pays them $15,000 a week. Much of the credit goes to Writers Jerome Lawrence, 30, and Robert E. Lee, 27, both from Armed Forces Radio and full of fizz and vinegar. Lee and Lawrence have faithfully heeded some 5,000-a-week listeners' requests, personally answered impossible pleas such as finding apartments or proposing marriage...
...community fell apart. No chart registered the collapse more quickly and more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense...