Word: lees
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Honorable mention went jointly to Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, and James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government, for their book City Politics...
...after the Oregon result was clear, the editors decided to postpone the nonpolitical cover that was coming off the press and switch to Nelson Rockefeller. Working largely from the reporting of Thimmesch and San Francisco Correspondent Roger Stone, who covered the general side of the Oregon campaign, Writers David Lee and Ronald Kriss put together the cover story for Senior Editor Champ Clark. In the process, all of them found renewed confidence in an old principle: political polls may stir up a lot of publicity, but they are no substitute for knowing, thinking journalists...
...loudest fury raged around three paintings presented as works of Jackson Pollock. The Van Gogh of the abstract expressionists has sold in private dealings of his best work for more than $100,000; a price sharply below that could hurt the Pollock market. His widow, Painter Lee Krasner, who owns many Pollocks, dropped in anxiously on Parke-Bernet to see the works. She pronounced that her husband never dripped these and hurried off to the state attorney general's office to sign a restraining order to stop the sale. Parke-Bernet had no alternative but to withdraw the paintings...
That particular record lasted about 20 minutes before Peckham buried Lee Rawls in the number six singles match...
What makes The Best Man so good is the professional tone maintained in all of the photography, direction, sets, and, especially, the acting. Margaret Leighton as Russell's wife and Shelly Berman as an old army pal of Cant-well give brilliant performances along with Lee Tracy, in his recreaton of his Broadway role of the dying, crusty ex-President whose endorsement is sought by both candidates...