Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine weeks after he took over as president. Last week the full extent of his shady goings on was made public. Chrysler announced that Newberg had agreed to return "profits in excess of $450,000 made by him from interests in vendor companies." Corporate executives at Chrysler, including Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, normally a vocal fellow, were just as reluctant to talk about this startling news as they were about Newberg's sudden departure...
...opera performed at the Metropolitan that evening was Verdi's Falstaff, with an unknown "cover" singer filling in for the ailing Spanish Baritone Vincente Bal-lester in the role of the wealthy burgher Ford. In the second act Ford sang his famous monologue E sogne? a realta? and shortly made his exit. As the orchestra launched into the music of the act's second scene, the audience began chanting an unfamiliar name: "Tibbett! Tibbett! Tib-bett!" Conductor Tullio Serafin waved his orchestra to silence and through the gold curtain stepped a slim young man with a putty-shaped...
...PARATROOPER OF MECHANIC AVE NUE, by Lester Goran (246 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), also tells of a tough childhood and of growing pains, but in fictional form and in a city world far removed from Billy Clark's Kentucky...
...press one day last week, smilingly posed beside brand-new 1961 models for pictures to be used when the cars go on sale in September and October. Elected president only nine weeks ago, he talked enthusiastically of plans for Chrysler's coming year. Two days later Chrysler Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert called an emergency meeting of Chrysler's board of directors in Manhattan, and he and Newberg flew there from Detroit in two company planes. At the meeting, to the shocked surprise of Detroit insiders and outsiders alike, Newberg resigned...
Remarkably enough, there have been few really satisfactory dictionaries of American slang. H. L. Mencken made his prodigious contribution (The American Language), and Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark produced their useful but not fundamental compendium (The American Thesaurus of Slang). Standing up well against the competition, Dr. Harold Wentworth, editor of the American Dialect Dictionary, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Cornell and University of Louisville philologist, have produced a handy, invaluable reference work that may well emerge as the standard in the field. In short, the authors have done a remarkably fly and dicty...