Word: lees
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Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...
Tough, tyrannical Sewell Lee Avery had lost "the first round, but he did not seem to know it; although Montgomery Ward's board of directors had knocked him down a peg and made President Wilbur Norton day-to-day boss (TIME, May 31), Chairman Avery went on as if nothing had happened. Last week the second-round bell sounded...
...letter in TIME [May 10] stated that a double equestrian statue of Lee and Jackson which had been erected in Baltimore was thought to be the only one of its kind in the U.S. and perhaps in the world...
...double equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and a young soldier was erected by the Southern Memorial Association and unveiled by President Roosevelt in Lee Park at Dallas, Tex. It is a fine work of art by A. Phimister Proctor, who has just completed a group of horses called "The Mustangs" for the University of Texas campus...
Yesterday's vote of the Corporation sent the three Frederick Sheldon Prize Traveling Fellowships to David Dudley Bidwell '48 of Weston, and Lowell House, Richard Lee Ingraham '45 of Packanack Lake, New Jersey, and Richard Henry Milburn '48 of Newark, New Jersey, and Adams House. All three men were recipients of summa degrees in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, Mathematics, and Physics respectively...