Word: lees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teen-agers who bristle to the defense of their rock-'n'-roll idols upon the slightest criticism from adults will doubtless be able to dream up some excuse for the deplorable antics of our latest good-will ambassador, Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life...
Northwestern University Barnaby Conrad Keeney, president, Brown University LL.D. Lee Alvin DuBridge, president, California Institute of Technology LL.D...
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, 1957 co-winners of the Nobel prize in physics Sc.D...
Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, collaborator of Drs. Lee and Yang Sc.D...
American composer to watch: Wisconsin-born Lee Hoiby, 33, whose first opera, The Scarf, had its première last week at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto (TIME, June 23). Based on a Chekhov short story, the opera tells of a Circe-like enchantress who sits in an isolated farmhouse on blizzardy nights and without the knowledge of her aging husband, lures in passing bucks with a wave of her crimson scarf, symbolizing her occult powers. After a postman spends the night, the husband rebels; the wife silences him by strangling him with her scarf. At Spoleto last...