Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What intelligent or legitimate connection can there be between Lena Horne's songs or Gypsy Rose Lee's navel and the election campaigns of responsible officials and progressive legislators? Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's substitution of theatrical ballyhoo for concrete, vital political issues is a stupid and sordid insult to the voters of this nation. The work of other such ICCASPeople as Daily Worker Writer Howard Fast readily attests to Communist Front activity and possible Moscow affiliations...
Crimson grid squads have never been noted for a surplus, of first rate backs. Endicott Peabody was more of a here than Franny Lee--even starting with the tremendous handicap which his guard position gave him. Torby MacDonald was doubtless a great back, but injuries forced him to make more headlines than yardage against Yale. You have to go back to Vern Struck and even Barry Wood to hit a really top-notch backfield star in a Crimson uniform, and even then fingers were crossed all the time against possible injuries...
...decided that Patsy Lee might be her lost daughter. She wrote to Hailey and Father Gehring, and finally, fighting her way through jungles of official indifference and red tape, set out on the long voyage to Efate. Last week she got there and claimed Father Gehring's Patsy Lee as her lost child...
...restrained, first-rate reporting, was the biggest thing in New Yorker history. Book Critic Lewis Gannett called Hersey's piece "the best reporting . . . of this war." The New York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article on the air. Only...
Neither the Army nor Dr. Hutcheson was thinking of rocketing passengers to the moon. But Robert Lee Farnsworth, president of the U.S. Rocket Society, was practically (in imagination) an earth-moon commuter already. He could see one serious obstacle only: "I'd like to be on the first flight," said he, "but my wife gets pretty indignant with...