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...even weirder at Warner. Harry Warner, the studio's money czar, said he knew nothing about his cartoon unit except that "we make Mickey Mouse." Leon Schlesinger, the stingy despot who ran the unit until 1944, would begin his viewing of dailies with a curt "Roll the garbage." Schlesinger did inspire his troops once: his lisp was the basis for Daffy Duck's voice. Schlesinger's successor, Eddie Selzer, hated the notion that his slaves might enjoy their work. He once sputtered, "What the hell has all this laughter to do with the making of animated cartoons...
...Leon Jaroff. Reported by James Willwerth/Pahrump
...Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, lecturer on law and public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), is listed in serious condition at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is currently suffering from pneumonia after entering the hospital for surgery last week...
...Leon Jaroff...
Then the Museum scrubbed me. The cancellation, the story in The Crimson said, was not necessarily welcome to Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, who said, "I want people to see how wrong he is." Until I read this, I hadn't thought of Wieseltier as an especially staunch defender of Freedom of Speech...