Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was a good precedent for mercy. In British annal's there was the case of a man the hangman could not hang. He was John Lee, a Devon murderer. On Feb. 23, 1885, he was thrice led, bound and black-hooded, to the gallows. In 30 minutes of trying, the hangman thrice released the trap and thrice it failed to open (rain had caused the wood to swell). Lee's death sentence was commuted to life in prison...
...Noel D. Lee '46, well known student pianist, will be the soloist in the performance when the Pierian under Malcolm H. Holmes gives the premiere of the piece. The concert will also feature Phyllis Botner, Radcliffe '05, who plays the harp in Vaughn Williams's "Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus...
...lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead, and ten passengers were ready for Altoona, Pa. hospitals, still crowded by victims from the Red Arrow...
...story of a crooner (Lee Bowman) who rises too fast in the world, and of what the rise does to his wife (Susan Hay ward). The wife serves him well and happily, so long as he is handling cowboy ballads on 6 a.m. radio dates. But once he comes into that lustrous realm in which appearances and contacts and discreet intrigue count for so much, a Perfect Secretary (Marsha Hunt) takes over more & more of the spadework. She even decorates the crooner's new apartment, and selects gifts for his wife. The wife, robbed of every reason to believe...
...proposition that nothing is quite as real as the real thing, artfully used. This time, the proposition, is brilliantly demonstrated by Director Elia Kazan and by the nonprofessional actors as he handles them. There are some highly professional performances by Dana Andrews, Arthur Kennedy, Ed Begley and Lee J. Cobb...