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Word: lees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold more than 100,000 copies in three months. And Capitol Records, which seems to know when it has something (it also has such top girl singers as Jo Stafford, Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee), had recorded 24 songs by Kay before the Petrillo...

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

...Canada Lee, one of Broadway's top ranking Negro actors (Native Son, The Tempest), turned disc jockey for Manhattan's WNEW. But he wasn't saying why: "One doesn't admit that one would like to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Radio Set | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Every schoolchild knows what success attended their efforts; it is a commentary on the writing of American history that most of the men themselves are unknown. There are volumes on the staff officers of Robert E. Lee, but who, aside from students, knows George Wythe and John Blair, James Wilson, Luther Martin, William Paterson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom or Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer? Something is wrong with any definition of greatness that excludes them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 127 Days That Shook the World | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Yesterday was General Robert E. Lee's birthday anniversary and ten Staunch southerners from Kirkland House didn't let it pass unnoticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dixie Flag Flies Over Yankeeland | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

Crimson 145-pounder Dan Ray in the tentative listings is scheduled to match Charles Gardner although Ken O'Shsughnessy of the 1947 team is still at Columbia. Buddy King will be at 136 for the Crimson against Phil Temke while at 123 Lee Nutt will face other Ralph Vrana or Sasha Komsa for Columbia, in the lightest class, the Crimson's planing flyweight Dave Coombs meets Joe Pettinatte

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Wrestlers Face Seasoned Columbia Squad Upon Home Mats Tomorrow | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

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