Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LESTER ALEXANDER Toledo, Ohio...
...Seconds. In the two seconds before his brain is paralyzed in the electric chair Elliott Lester's murderer reviews his life, thereby cutting 58 seconds from the record established by Maxwell Bodenheim in a novel (Sixty Seconds) in 1929. Nineteen scenes pass through his mind; at the end of them he is dead. The unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife...
...through the puddles and clambered into the front seat of an automobile. Careful British police whisked him to London where he arrived in high spirits, flashing his pink gums at the welcoming throngs. He was taken to Kingsley Hall Settlement House, whose fluttering proprietress, a Miss Muriel Lester, had been eagerly awaiting him for weeks (TIME, July 13). Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were the Misses Frances Perry of Topeka, Kan., Mildred Osterhaut of Vancouver, B. C. and Camille Solomon of No. 552 West 150th Street, New York...
...little man in his first radio broadcast last week.* Several radio stations claimed credit for the hookup. It was due to the enterprise of Newark's WOR alone. At the appointed time St. Gandhi refused to be hustled from his dates and milk; his flustered hostess, Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House, was forced to ad lib for many minutes. At length the Mahatma approached the microphone, prayed for a few moments silently. Then millions of U. S. listeners heard his first words: "Do I have to speak into this thing...
...Died. Lester Lonergan, 62, actor (Brass Ankle) who staged Abraham Lincoln, The Command to Love; of heart failure while-sitting on a porch with his wife at Lynn, Mass., discussing Eugene O'Neill's newtrilogy, Mourning Becomes Electro, in which he was to have played...