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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before she dropped the diversionary maneuvers and enrolled at Lee Strasberg's celebrated Actors Studio. "It was because of Lee that I became an actress," she says flatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Blonde Black Panther | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...SOUTHAMPTON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Phyllis Diller as the widowed head of the poor but proud Pruitts of Long Island. The first episode, "Phyllis Goes for Broke," chronicles Uncle Ned's (Reginald Gardiner) efforts to marry Phyllis off to moneyed stuffiness, General Cannon (John McGiver). Gypsy Rose Lee plays a noisy neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 2, 1966 | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...problems to the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization, holding its second week of hearings on the plight of U.S. cities. The subcommittee heaped lavish praise on Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh. It had kind words for Oakland's John H. Reading, praised New Haven's Richard C. Lee and Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. Chairman Ab raham Ribicoff of Connecticut and New York's Robert Kennedy, both Democrats, went so far as to pose with New York Republican John Lindsay after some good-natured repartee during Lindsay's testimony. Grinned Bobby: "It must be National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...Lee Higginson overextended itself. Between 1928 and 1932, it underwrote many millions of dollars worth of Swedish Swindler Ivar Kreuger's efforts to corner the international matchmaking market. After Kreuger's depredations were disclosed, Lee Higginson, among others, was stuck with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Good Night, Lee Hig | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

There was even less after the May 1962 market plunge. Lee Higginson lost heavily, then was all but ignored by investors in the trading resurgence that followed. In even more recent years, the firm had been barely scraping by. Boston-based Chairman Charles Cotting, 77, closed the books sadly-but just in time. Unless new funds could have been raised in a very short time, Lee Higginson was headed for an ignoble fate: suspension from the New York Stock Exchange for lack of adequate capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Good Night, Lee Hig | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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