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Canada's Foreign Affairs Chief Lester ("Mike"") Pearson was one statesman who saw the week's developments in Washington (see U.S. AFFAIRS) as a quick way to 1) assure two Chinas, 2) hog-tie Chiang Kaishek, and 3) get the Chinese Reds into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: One Interpretation | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...LESTER GRADY Palmerton, Pa. ¶ The bull did not die; he just paused to chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Pistol & the Claw | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...busy as the factories were, auto salesmen were even busier. Helped by the discounting dealers (TIME, Jan. 24), sales were climbing. Said Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert: "We are selling cars faster than we can make them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Going Up | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...meantime, Correspondent Lester Bernstein was writing and organizing some four weeks of intensive research in a special field of medicine as the basis for a possible future cover story for the Medicine section. Elsewhere in London George Voigt, having checked his usual beat, which is Defense and Foreign Office, was checking up on a show at the British Broadcasting Corp., with an eye cocked toward a future television story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...lover, came to personify the French 18th century, and how he created the intellectual Trojan horse that led to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. It is the first biography of Diderot to appear in English in three-quarters of a century, and it is a good one. Author Lester G. Crocker, a Goucher College professor and former movie writer, knows how to blow the dust off his subject, and bring both an 18th century personality and his ideas to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reason's Playboy | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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