Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noting that "Dr. Lee de Forest, one of radio's pioneers, has described the new eater of evenings as a 'Benign Frankenstein,' " the FORUM wonders if there are not "many who would question his use of the word benign." Is there any basis for optimism? "The U.S., essentially unchanged by such other modern advances as the supersonic airplane and the super-septic tank, may survive television. A remote possibility...
When Communist-liner Lee Pressman was booted out of his job as the C.I.O.'s general counsel last winter, it was with the friendly understanding that he would still be called on for odd chores as a private lawyer. Thus bolstered, Lawyer Pressman moved to New York, bought a $30,000 house in suburban Mt. Vernon and started running for Congress as an American Labor Party candidate from Brooklyn. He spent his spare time helping mastermind Henry Wallace's campaign for the presidency. But last week he presented a bill for his first legal assignment from the C.I.O...
...been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only 1,311 votes (out of some 565,000 cast...
...Know the Score." Negro Publisher Davis Lee of the Newark weekly Telegram (circ. 110,000) found a Negro's life below the Mason-Dixon line more tolerable than north of it. In an editorial he wrote: "When I am in Virginia or North Carolina I don't wonder if I will be served if I walk into a white restaurant. I know the score. However, I have walked into several right here in New Jersey . . . and have been refused service . . . New Jersey today boasts of more civil rights legislation than any other state in the union...
Died. Helen Lee Worthing, fiftyish, faded onetime Ziegfeld Follies dancer who was once pressagented as "the most beautiful girl in the world"; of seconal poisoning; in Los Angeles. After a few parts in silent movies, she married a Negro physician, Dr. Eugene Nelson, was dropped by the studios, eventually moved on to drink, dope and sanitariums...