Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Akron, Ohio, Lester V. Baker '23, C/o India Tire & Rubber Co., Akron; Chicago, Dwight Ingram '16, 14 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago; Cincinnati, Ohio, F. H. Lawson '21, C/o the F. H. Lawson Company, Cincinnati; Cleveland, Ohio, Walter J. Milde '25, 1759 Union Trust Building, Cleveland; Des Moines, Iowa, Harold H. Newcomb, L '21-22, Register & Tribune Bldg., Des Moines, Iowa; Harvard Association of Eastern New York, Hobart W. Davis '24, 447 Ontario, St., Albany, N. Y.; Indiana, W. R. Allen '15, C/o L. S. Ayres Company, Indianapolis, Ind.; Michigan, John D. Rice, L '27, 2288 First National Bank Bldg., Detroit...
...typical training procedure: at Newark Airport small Pilot "Bill" Lester of American Airways, who is 26 years old but looks 18, takes off in a Fairchild. Hidden in the blackened cockpit behind is old-timer Dean Smith, who flew for Byrd in the Antarctic. Pilot Lester disconnects the radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take...
...fond of birdsongs, buggy-riding, playing on piano and organ. Improvising casually for her family several years ago, she played a melody which she said was inspired by her garden. They urged her to write it down. Arranged by Radio Orchestra Conductor William Merrigan Daly, with lyrics by one Lester O'Keefe. "In My Garden" was sung publicly last week for the first time, by Tenor Richard Crooks in an NBC concert...
...playing in short trousers and barelegged, won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3~6 6-3. . In the semi-finals he beat Tilden's onetime protege Junior Coen 6-4, 6-1 5-7,6-2. In the final his opponent was huge (6 11 6 in.) Lester Stoeffen of Los Angeles. Parker...
...Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, whammed with his gavel to quiet the vast babble that was filling the flag-hung Chicago Stadium. He had "keynoted" the convention the day before in loud, oldtime partisan style (TIME, June 20). Now in order were several more perfunctory pieces of business before the main (and equally perfunctory) acts of the meeting could be performed...