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Clarence Day Sr. outdid Jeeter Lester -or would this week, when Lindsay & Grouse's Life with Father gave its 3,183rd consecutive Broadway performance, one more than Tobacco Road's previous world record. For the occasion, co-author Howard Lindsay and wife Dorothy Stickney, the original Father & Mother, agreed to resume their roles for a one-night stand. The demand for tickets was so great that they decided to extend their stand to two weeks. Also for the occasion, the play's pressagents compiled some statistics...
...greatest number of questions to ask Zionist and Arab spokesmen. He turned to Henri Cattan, and asked (as if he knew): "Do you realize that in the Dead Sea there are $3,000,000,000,000 worth of minerals?" Cracked the committee chairman, Canada's witty, brisk Lester Pearson: "Gentlemen, I think our work is over. . . . We have found [indicating Asaf Ali] our special committee of inquiry...
...conservative U.S. papers the sultry little tale from Havana got what it deserved: decent burial on an inside page, below the fold. In the tabloids, and such dailies as are tabloids under the skin, the life, loves and death of one John Lester Mee got top billing as the season's spiciest mixture of sin, sex, masochism and mon-keyshine justice. It was the type of news the U.S. press tells only too well, and loves to tell...
...heir presumptive"; 2) Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, 47, "whose affability makes him the most popular of ministers"; 3) Health Minister Paul Martin, 43, "whose . . . eloquence and ambition make him a candidate"; 4) Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner, 63, "a first-class organizer"; 5) External Affairs Under Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 49, who "leads all the dark horses by manylengths...
...commercialization" of tutoring vis-a-vis the Athenian gentility of Harvard, I agree that it is indeed fortunate for free education in a free society that university teachers are not paid and so may speak the truth as they see it, not caring a whitney what powers they offend. Lester Cramer...