Word: lees
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...sunken boat and now operates one of the world's largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled to one of the nicest possible parks in the United States. It is close to the Potomac, and it is close to the seat of some...
Stenhouse is an interesting story. Up until last week in Florida, if anybody had told you that Stenhouse would be playing left field and Paul Halas second base on opening day you would have thought that person had munched on one too many Bill Lee sunflower seeds...
...BEGINNING, there were blues, rhythm and "race music." Then there were Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as a swarm of other young musicians, black and white, singing what was labeled as "black" music. And disc jockey Alan Freed and the record companies looked down upon this phenomenon and realized that white middle-class teenagers went ape over this taboo "black" music that their parents hated. And Freed called it "Rock and Roll," and it was good . . . and profitable...
...have been thrown together in a few weeks; it relies on rude energy to overcome its essential slightness. Luckily, the energy is there-in the direction, some of the acting, and especially in the music. Any movie that features Chuck Berry stomping out Roll Over Beethoven and Jerry Lee Lewis igniting Great Balls of Fire cannot be a complete waste of time...
Brooklyn-bred Richard Lee Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time...