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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terre Haute, Ind., Lee Wilson turned the crank on the old projector, and later played the piano, in his father's small movie house. He also had a paper route and he played cornet in the Methodist Church orchestra. To pay his way through Rose Polytechnic Institute (in Terre Haute), he shoveled iron ore, laid track for a railroad, and later played semi-pro baseball Sundays and nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Career Man | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Erickson and Bert Kelsey, professional dramatists for the Federal Theater, accepted co-directorship of the play last night. Shaw himself has promised to rewrite the work. Lee Strasberg, director of the recent "Skipper Next to God," will give additional professional aid as production supervisor. 'Cliffe Gives "Masque of Mercy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Play Makes Bow At 'Cliffe Today; Pros Assist HDC | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...went ahead with production, the Dramatic Club heard from Lee Strasburg, veteran Broadway producer, who announced that he would be unsble to direct "The Survivor" owing to pressure of other duties. However, he did consent to join Drian Shaw, the play's author, in revising the HDC script...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HTW Rounds Out 'Murder' Casting As HDC Continues Hunting Director | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

...Chances. Dr. Smithy's operation on Betty Lee was daring. Surgical annals record only twelve operations on the heart's valves; only two patients lived. Since 1928, no other such operations have been recorded. The type of heart damage Betty Lee suffered is the most common resulting from rheumatic fever, which causes 90% of all heart disease in children, 40% of heart disease at all ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hearts & Scalpels | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Gypsy Rose Lee came in blue jeans, to paint Benjy's fourth-floor rooms. Author Christopher Isherwood, Poet Louis Mac-Neice, Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson drifted in & out. At meals, Auden presided at one end of the table. He also did the bookkeeping, and was irritated if any of the tenants questioned their bills. Benjy always paid up (about $25 a week) without a murmur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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