Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Lee Maxwell of our San Francisco office is another of our men who wears the D.F.C. (As pilot of the "Puffing Hussy," he has gone on 51 bombing raids, once brought his crew safely home from an unescorted mission even though enemy fighters had shot away his landing gear. Only casualty was the toy elephant he carried as a mascot.) Second Lieut. N. Robert Drake of our newsstand department has the D.F.C. and the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters (a bombardier, Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been...
...experience: the way to subdue Sewell Avery was by envelopment, not frontal attack. In Chicago last week, Major General Joseph Wilson Byron politely stepped up to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s efficient receptionist Helen Love, asked to see Ward's stubborn $100,000-a-year president Sewell Lee Avery. Over an interoffice phone, she conveyed General Byron's message. It was: the Army's here agin...
...MARGARET LEE WALGREN...
Saturnalia. Mack's party for Doc was premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia...
Born. To Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, literate ecdysiast; and Alexander Kirkland, 40, Manhattan actor-producer: their first child, a son; two months after her Reno divorce, one day before his marriage to strawberry-blond post-debutante Phyllis Adams, 21, theatrical tyro (The Snark was a Boojum); in Manhattan. Name: Eric Lee. Weight...