Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavier of the two boats is stroked by veteran Ray Burns. Lindy is at seven, Ted House at six, Randy Seed at five, Dick Lincoln at four, Oliver Leland at three, Bob Lofgren at two, and Joe Brown...
Died. Edwin Leland James, 61, for 19 years managing editor of the New York Times; of a heart disease; in Manhattan. Jaunty, cane-swinging, Virginia-born "Jimmy" James first cubbed for the Baltimore Sun, became a regular Times byliner with his World War I front-line dispatches, stayed in Europe for the Times until called home in 1930, built up the Times's crack foreign staff. One of his best-known leads was on the 1918 Armistice: "In a twinkling, four years of killing and massacre stopped as if God had swept His omnipotent finger across the scene...
Kerr attempted to oust FPC Chairman Leland Olds, after loading the Commission with two of his oilcronies, Harrington Wimberly and Burton Bailing. They began a smear campaign to brand Olds as a Socialist, and the Senate rejected his renomination. Meanwhile Kerr railroaded a bill through the Senate which gave the natural gas producers legal protection against the FPC. Truman vetoed the measure, and Congress couldn't muster the necessary 2/3 majority to override the President...
Remains To Be Seen (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...
Died. Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou (Leland) Diamond, 61, No. 1 mortar man of the Marine Corps and long its greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent...