Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Terry Lee and Jane Allen would ever meet again, their creator did not know. He had surrendered his godlike right over them and their actions, which he had guided for eleven years past. Next week, in 220 newspapers including papers as far away as the Times of Seoul, Korea, Milton Caniff's byline will appear on a new comic strip, to be known as Steve Canyon...
When Bessie Smith was singing Young Woman's Blues and Empty Bed Blues in Chicago in the 1920s, Julia Lee was singing the same kind of songs with the late Benny Moten's band in Kansas City. Count Basie played the piano. During the depression Julia went to work at $12 a week in Milton's Taproom. In the rowdy days of the Pendergast era, Julia sang ribald ditties like Two Old Maids in a Folding Bed and The Fuller Brush Man. But Kansas City is cleaner now, and so are Julia's lyrics...
...Julia Lee has left Kansas City only a couple of times, once for the recent Hollywood recording date, and once when she sang for three weeks with one-armed Trumpeter Wingy Mannone in Chicago. She got homesick for Kansas City and quit. Says she: "If you're not happy, there's no percentage in the big money...
...program was probably conducted with the loftiest ideals in the higher echelons. It was spark-plugged by General Marshall himself, and the men who ran the show in the Pentagon were of topflight ability. The I & E School at Washington and Lee University had the reputation of being one of the finest in the Army. I can vouch for the efficiency and evangelistic zeal of its faculty; for a month I was impressed with the importance of my military mission and imbued with a love for my fellow-soldiers. When I was handed my diploma...
...personnel themselves was inadequate. The War Department Circulars regarding the selection of I & E personnel prescribed men of professional training and caliber--lawyers, newspapermen, etc. I was flattered when selected, considering myself a green college undergraduate who hardly satisfied the prerequisites. When I arrived at Washington and Lee, however, I found my classmates were everything from butchers up, the majority of them being white-collar workers with a high school or a year or two of college education at best. Only a handful met the circular requirements...