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Word: lees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Point, Cadet David Lee Arnold, 22, graduated 450th in his class from the Military Academy and married Jean Simmons, 20, of Mountain Lakes, N.J., all with the beaming approval of his General of the Air Force father, Old Grad (1907) Henry. H. ("Hap") Arnold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Lexington, Va., Robert E. Lee IV, 24, great-grandson of the General of the Confederacy, graduated from the university named after his ancestor: Washington and Lee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan office one day last February, Otis Lee Wiese, 44-year-old editor and publisher of McCall's, got a telephone call from Hyde Park. The caller, whom Wiese has never identified, cried: "Come quick! The lady's feelings are hurt." Wiese quickly decoded "lady" into Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and took the next train north, convinced that somehow the rival Ladies' Home Journal had underestimated the power of a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Call from Hyde Park | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...bellum days the family estate near Leesville was a showplace of the state, with white mansion house, hundreds of slaves, fine horses and good bourbon. There was even a Confederate colonel in the picture: Grandfather James Louis Arthur, who rode proudly off to join the Army of Robert E. Lee, returned to live out his days selling off acre by acre to keep up the old mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Veteran Stripper and sometime Litterateur Gypsy 'Rose Lee, currently touring the Midwest with her own girlie show in a carnival, discoursed on what it takes for success in stripteasing. "Brains! To go on year after year," said she, pointing to her forehead, "you got to have it up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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