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There is one redeeming feature to the whole thing. It is nondescript Lester, huffooning his way across the drab stage with the abandon of a loosed chimpanzee, using all the tricks of the accomplished mugger, stealing every scene, cussing, spitting, pinching, and generally acting as if he enjoyed every minute of his poverty. It seems as though James Barton is almost too good a comedian, for his "heavy' scenes misfire, with the audience waiting in vain for a flow of damns and hells...
...hiccuping some seven weeks ago, but unlike most people, she did not stop. Anna Mayer knew she was in for it−in 1941 she hiccuped for 42 days. That siege, during which her weight dropped from no to 68 lb., ended dramatically in a nerve operation by Dr. Lester Samuels...
...Methodism. Because the presidency alternates annually between a Southerner and a Northerner (a courtesy dating from 1939, when the Southern and Northern Churches were united), the Council's outgoing president, Richmond's Bishop William Walter Peele, was succeeded by Cincinnati's Bishop H. (for Harry) Lester Smith. Cincinnati is Methodism's biggest Area (510,810 church members...
Laurance & Lester Armour and Joseph M. Cudahy got gouged by their Chicago corner butchers, according to OPA. Investigators of violated price ceilings reported that the Armours had paid 10? a Ib. too much for hamburger and Cudahy 8? too much for sirloin...
...from Knavery. The fifth of a stonemason's seven sons, Leslie Townes Hope was born in Eltham, England in 1904. (He later changed Leslie to Lester because it sounded more masculine, Lester to Bob because it sounded more matey...