Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impractical Joke. In Los Angeles, Thomas J. Gant didn't see anything to laugh at when Thurman Lee Dawson gave him an outsized hotfoot with lighter fluid: he shot the prankster dead; the court called it justifiable homicide...
...would boss the bosses next? An "executive editorial board" will try, with six $1-a-month members (John Hersey, Clifton Fadiman, Annalee Jacoby, J. D. Ratcliff, Gjon Mili, George Biddle). Over them will be a paid editor named Lawrence Lee, promoted from '47's literary editor. In theory, he can veto the board's decisions...
...point of view was advanced early this week by Lee Kreindler 1L, former chairman of the Dartmouth chapter. Supported by a 20-man caucus, Kreindler urged in an open letter to the entire membership that "Communism is a false issue...
Distinctly the high spot of the evening was the work of Noel Lee '46, who performed among other things Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. He set himself no slight task in choosing the concerto, which requires not only technical accomplishment but a sensitivity of interpretation to make it worth hearing. That the sensitivity was there was never in doubt, and Lee's technical standard was also high. The first movement in particular was impressive, with the cadenza--arranged by the performer himself--especially broad in emotional conception...
...Lee was also the soloist in the premiere of the Variations for Piano and Orchestra by Nicholas Van Slyck 1G, the work which dominated the second half of the program. The Crimson's critic states frankly that he is not enough of a musician to analyze the competition after one hearing; but it should be observed that it was at all times interesting, not to any noticeable extent derivative, and in the best modern tradition of piano-orchestra color. Van Slyck rose to the enthusiastic applause of the audience at the end of his prize-winning work's performance...