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...friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese...
...Crimson marksmen excelled individually as well as collectively. Meyers of Northeastern was high man with 276 points, and Bedworth of Yale was third with 275. Captain Lem Hyde, with 275, Slim Goldberg with 274 and Les Rusoff with 273, all, of Harvard, however, became the other three of the top fie sharpshooters. Diz Dunbar, 266, and Bill Cooper, 260, were the other Crimson shooters, while Ted Miller and Larry Shaul acted as alternates. Next year's captain and letter winners will be announced later...
...gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words to say for the strong, intelligent and courageous people he had seen on his junket. He was still in the mood of his Minneapolis speech two months ago when...
...from a bust of the Great Emancipator above his desk that Lawyer Lem Schofield (Bob Burns) derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln...
...much in any league, and when caught last Monday night Lew Brown's "Yokel Boy Makes Good" at the Shubert, ran to this length. The show, however, was pretty good, and with judicious pruning it might well turn into a smash hit. It has tunes; "A Boy Named Lem, and a Girl Named Sue" is far from corny and there were several others which may break into the summer Hit Parade...