Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedside Manners. "I pushed into the room," wrote pushy Clark Lee, an A.P. star who turned Hearstling (with I.N.S.) in midwar. "Tojo lay back in a small armchair, his eyes closed. . . . Blood oozed slowly from a wound just above his heart. . . . The American reporters pushed past Tojo, brushing his knees, talking loudly and excitedly. Photographers shoved their cameras in the wounded man's face...
...play into the hall telephone, souvenir-hunting correspondents helped themselves to everything that was loose. One pried the bullet out of the back of Tojo's chair. A photographer hobbled off with a samurai sword inside his pants leg, but an officer stopped him. "We stood around," Lee recalls, "smoking and talking and making bets on how soon Tojo's small chest would stop heaving." After two hours an Army doctor arrived...
...Last Look Around (295 pp.)-Clark Lee -Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75); Star-Spangled Mikado (282 pp.)-Frank Kelley and Cornelius Ryan-McBride...
Died. Jesse Wilford Reno, 85, inventor in 1892 of the inclined elevator (a forerunner of the modern Escalator), son of Civil War General Jesse Lee Reno, who gave his name to Nevada's notorious "Biggest Little City in the World"; after long illness; in Pelham Manor...
...neurotic. And who's the gainer? Not the other team, because as soon as they walk a guy like that, there's a jinx on them, and for all they know he'll hit a grand slam homer. Not Williams; it doesn't help his batting average. Not Lee Durocher; he's out of baseball for a while, my friends down in Brooklyn tell...