Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Judge Sullivan read his 18-page opinion, Montgomery Ward's $100,000-a-year chairman, stubborn Sewell Lee Avery, was absent from the courtroom. At the lush San Marcos Hotel in Chandler, Ariz., where he was resting, Avery called it "a great day for labor...
...everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest; it may well see a lovelier...
Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...
Comm Z, like other base forces which have sometimes outnumbered the forces in the front line, has grown fat with able-bodied personnel. "Courthouse" Lee has done some combing, but lightly; latterly he has demanded a hospitalized veteran for every man he gives up to the combat-training camps. Gasser's combing will be ruthless; his orders are stern and clear. When he gets through with Comm Z, the Army's rear-echelon establishments will be pretty well raked clean of all men fit for combat...
...deputy, General Ben, who has a passion for soldierly discipline, is expected to pass "the word" down through the command. Many soldiers were beginning to think it was about time: there were 18,000 AWOLs in ETO last week. Ben Lear will have no part in General Lee's second job: "Courthouse" will go on being boss of supply and service forces...