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Shephard's smile dissolved when a liquor dealer gave him one curled-lip glance in the New Brunswick, NJ. police station and told the cops, "That's the guy." A dozen other merchants nodded their heads positively. The detectives brought in Betty Lester, the buxom widow he had been sparking, and accused them both of passing bad checks through the length & breadth of New Jersey. At the trial, 16 witnesses testified in their behalf, but the liquor dealer was coldly positive:' Cliff Shephard and Betty Lester were sentenced to nine months in the county workhouse. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Phantom Forger | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Lester B. Granger, executive secretary of the National Urban League; John H. Sengstacke, publisher of the Chicago Defender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Ahead of the Country | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...days out of the week I would read the Herald Tribune; Lester Markel wins on the seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...male members of this exclusive luncheon club are Managing Editor James; Assistant Managing Editor Catledge; Assistant to the Publisher (and son-in-law) Orvil Eugene Dryfoos; Editor Charles Merz, boss of the editorial page; General Adler; Washington Correspondent Krock (when he's in town), and Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 56 (TIME, March 8, 1948), the restless, smart and hard-driving boss of the four excellent Sunday feature sections, which have helped boost the Sunday Times from 778,000 to 1,153,000 circulation since he joined the staff as Sunday editor 27 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Fear or Favor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

John G. Morey '52 and Lester L. Ward '52 beat a team from City College of New York in a debate held here last night on the topic: "Resolved, That the U.S. should nationalize all basic non-agricultural industries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Team Defeats Touring CCNY Squad | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

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