Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan was devised last March. Communist delegates attended a "Southeast Asia Youth Conference" in Calcutta. A planeload of experts from Moscow came to give them their orders. Representing Burma was stout, 30-year-old Hari Narayan Goshal. From Malaya came Chinese Communist Lee Soong and from Australia, Laurence Sharkey, who flew back to Singapore with Lee for a two-week stay after the conference...
After Tin, Oil. The return of Lee Soong and Sharkey to Malaya was soon followed by a wave of terrorism through the rich tin mines and rubber plantations of the north (TIME, Aug. 23). Most of Malaya's tin and rubber normally go to the U.S. Britain can ill afford the loss of dollars from her small hard-currency pool...
Then who should appear on the stage but tall, bouncy Gypsy Rose Lee. She had given up stripteasing for authorship-but you could never be sure, with Gypsy. The camera gave her a nervous glance. Sure enough, as she got well into her song, Psychology of a Stripteaser, she began to pluck at her shoulder. That was enough: the picture wavered and vanished in a hysterical band of jiggling lines. Startled televiewers found themselves staring at nothing but the initials CBS, while in the background, Gypsy's voice trilled on, and enthusiastic Air Force veterans shouted the traditional "Take...
Next day, stoutly denying any intent of censorship, CBS officials mumbled about "technical difficulties." Gypsy's sudden departure from the screen was just "a very odd coincidence." Said Miss Lee: "It was nearly midnight. Surely the kiddies aren't watching at that hour...
Airline men, who know that they must tap the middle and lower income groups if they are to survive the air travel slump, expect that Pan Am's trick will soon be adopted by other lines. Said T.W.A.'s Warren Lee Pierson: "The principle of low-cost service has been recognized by the steamships and the railroads while the airlines have stubbornly clung to a one-class service. It's time the airlines offered a choice of classes...