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Word: lees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lookin' for babe." This time he syncopated the lines, "I'm not the one you want babe," giving it a jazzy flavor. The first half of the show closed with a new love song, "Isis," that sounded like the parable from John Wesley Harding, "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest," about a false search for happiness...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: On the Street Again | 11/7/1975 | See Source »

Paintings, Drawings and collages by Winchester artist Linda Lee, at Ticknor Library, Boylston Hall, through December 13. Good stuff but the building is overheated...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: GALLERIES | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

Most of the Concord Building's present tenants came in the early days of the Wyner Trust. Raia moved there in 1950; Marguerite Fuller bought the Betty Lee Beauty Shop in 1954; and John and Theodora Marston bought the Darling Secretarial Service in 1948. The Marstons are, in fact, the building's senior tenants now, although they like to defer that honor to Jimmy Quinn on the grounds that he is second-generation...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

...really an ideal location for the Betty Lee Beauty Shop, though, because, owner Marguerite Fuller says, "we don't get too many girls any more." The girls, Fuller says, all wear their hair long and straight these days, and it hurts business. "I don't think that style is becoming to everyone," Fuller says. "Some of them can wear it, of course, but you have to have a certain kind of hair." Nowadays, most of the shop's customers are business women and elderly women, Fuller says...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

Still, a mood of optimism pervades the Betty Lee Beauty Shop. Its two rooms are bright and cheery, full of light and mirrors and colors. There is a screen that modestly shields from view women who are having their hair done, and it is covered with vinyl in a pattern consisting of the word "love" repeated over and over. Fuller bought the business from Mary Ryan, who had started it in 1938--no one knows where the name Betty Lee came from--and has thrived there ever since. She doesn't know exactly how she ended up being a hairdresser...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

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