Word: lester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landlady while he was a student at Cambridge University and a poker-playing Army buddy, now an advertising man in Huntington, W. Va. While Contributing Editor James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they had one thing in common: both are former TIME correspondents in England, the former as a staffer in the London bureau and the latter a stringer at Cambridge...
...diplomatic note rocketed last week from the State Department to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic: What had the Dominican authorities discovered in their prolonged investigation of the death of Airline Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 23, a U.S. citizen? Buried in the question was a startling story. The FBI and New York police believe that Pilot Murphy was murdered because he knew too much about the mysterious disappearance last March of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, writer of a Ph.D. thesis condemning Dictator Trujillo (TIME, April...
...about the Honorable Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson...
...report of the "three wise men"-Canada's Lester Pearson, Italy's Martino, Norway's Halvard Lange-was less ambitious. While arguing broadly that "there cannot be unity in defense and disunity in foreign policy," its recommendations were hedged carefully with a sense of reality. Its chief recommendation: "Member governments should not adopt firm policies or make major political pronouncements on matters which significantly affect the alliance" without advance consultation with the NATO council...
...Enough Cars. Chrysler's Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, embarrassed by his own shortage of cars (TIME, Dec. 10), said that "by all present indications, the retail market for cars in 1957 should be bigger by a substantial margin." For one reason, buyers would be in a stronger position than in 1956, when many of them were paying off the autos they bought in the record year of 1955. Said Colbert: "A substantial percentage of those who purchased new cars in 1955 on the installment plan have already paid off these obligations, or will have them paid off some time...