Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owls & Mice. At 300 sessions, 1,335 papers were read, on everything from owls to unborn stars. An owl-man, Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan, described experiments on the survival value of protective coloration. He sprinkled a laboratory floor with soil. He populated the area with deer-mice, half of which matched the soil in color; half of which did not. Then he loosed owls, turned down the lights and retired. Over a series of such experiments, the owls, ate 24 to 29% more contrasting mice than matching ones. This, said Dr. Dice, illustrated the biological...
Into a flashy Troost Avenue gin mill in Kansas City last week wandered a lonely blonde. Like a lot of others, she had come to spill her troubles to a bosomy Negro blues singer named Julia Lee. She ordered two shots of bourbon for Julia, and a Tom Collins for herself. Julia Lee heard out the story of the blonde's wayward husband, then said with professional assurance: "Everything's going to turn out all right, honey." Then it was time for her act. From her piano, Julia beat out a boogie-woogie rhythm with her strong left...
Until a year ago few people outside of Missouri had ever heard of rolypoly Julia Lee. In Kansas City, where she has shouted blues for more than 30 years, she is as legendary a name to pub crawlers as Artist Thomas Hart Benton. Her black lace gowns, glistening bangs and the artificial flowers in her hair are as familiar to old-style jazz fans as the war memorial in Union Station Plaza. Visiting jazz greats, like Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Mildred Bailey and Bob Zerke, always seek her out when they hit town...
...than the others, so Capitol lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia Lee with the greatest blues shouter of them all, the late Bessie Smith...
...Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave 2,400,000 tabloid readers their full 2? worth. (Same day, the U.N. site story rated a paragraph...