Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly had Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert gaveled the annual meeting to order last week than Detroit Lawyer Sol A. Dann, owner of 5,100 Chrysler shares and a self-styled management "gadfly," started a harangue that lasted better than half of the 2½-hour meeting...
...speechmaking at selected forums. This week in Washington, he will go before the American Society of Newspaper Editors on a three-man panel to diagnose "the role of the opposition" (co-panelists: British Labor Party Chief Hugh Gaitskell, Canada's ex-Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson). At week's end he will Meet the Press...
...Opposition hungrily decided that the Pentagon had pulled the rug from under Diefenbaker for good. Socialist Leader Hazen Argue, who argues that Canada should spend its defense money on international good works, angrily shouted that Canadian defenses were "useless and due for a complete overhaul." For the Liberals, Lester ("Mike") Pearson charged that "every dollar being spent on Bomarc is in great danger of being wasted...
...where curious combination assignment, half sports and half Foreign Office reporting, lad opened up in 1937. Soon Reston, who says, "I didn't even know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy, now leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party, and France's Jean Monnet, both of whom rose along with Reston and later became good news sources. He also caught the eye of the New York Times...
...Spray. The guests began arriving at 10 p.m.: Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill (son of the Duke of Marlborough) of England, the Winston Guests of New York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year-old Charlotte, blooming...