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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s sharply tailored legal eagle, walked out of Phil Murray's Washington office-and out of his job-one day last week, he was lugubriously blowing his nose and drying his eyes. Behind him, Phil Murray was so overcome with emotion that he could not even step outside for a news picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of the Line? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...parting was inevitable. Lee Pressman and his Communist line are no longer popular in the C.I.O., where Walter Reuther's right wing is in ascendancy. Sorrowful, aging Phil Murray had found he could no longer straddle the edges of his union's ideological schism. Pressman had seen the writing on the wall. When the C.I.O.'s Executive Board voted last month against supporting Henry Wallace, Pressman knew he was through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of the Line? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

After giving his nose another blow, Lee Pressman, 41, announced that he would open his own law office in Manhattan. He would also campaign for Henry Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of the Line? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Look, Ma, I'm Dancin' (music & lyrics by Hugh Martin; book by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; produced by George Abbott) hit on a bright subject for a musical: ballet. There was plenty to spotlight, spoof, and splash with color. But Look, Ma isn't quite up to the job. It has its undeniable high points; but as a whole it doesn't come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Just how fast Kay can rise to popularity will depend a lot on James Caesar Petrillo (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The songs of hers that Capitol stored away were largely what were handed to her. The pick of what new tunes were around had already gone to Stafford, Whiting and Lee; Kay got the scraps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising Starr | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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