Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody's in the Act. The roster of ICCASP's Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
Little Lost Child. New York Times Reporter Foster Hailey saw Patsy at orphanages on Espiritu Santo and Efate and wrote two stories about her. These were read by Mrs. Li's sister, Katherine, who was doing medical research in Manhattan. Although the name was spelled "Patsy Lee" in the stories, she was so struck by the coincidence that she sent the clippings to her sister in Singapore...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Yale Professor (of Greek) Eugene O'Neill Jr. and New Republic Editor Malcolm Cowley debate H. L. Mencken's American Language...
...Movies-with-sound, using a complex mixture of inventions by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, Lee de Forest and others, are now some 57 years...
Drew Pearson, brash breathless Washington columnist, starred in the publicity trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit...