Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote in a mode of grotesque comedy rarely found in recent American fiction. With the irresponsible zest of a primitive jokester, he reveled in the high jinks of such moronic subhumans as Jeeter Lester and Darling Jill, whom he twisted into creatures of ribald fantasy far removed from everyday human character...
Other cameramen besides WPIX's Lester Mannix had caught the scene in their lenses. What made television news was the speed shown by WPIX in bringing the drama to its audience. The film was ready in the cutting room by 6; part of it went on the air at 7; the whole film was shown over the regular 7:30 newscast...
...Scene. But Gardiner's announcement made the convention a real contest. It gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...
Conversion by Mail. One of the experts quoted is the famed mail-order priest, Father Lester J. Fallon, whose correspondence courses of instruction in the Roman Catholic faith signed up 38,000 servicemen during the war. Father Fallon, who calls his technique "Getting Them Up on the Rectory Porch," points out that many a potential convert is embarrassed at approaching a priest, and would rather read about Catholicism at home before ringing the rectory doorbell. Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is the best method of reaching such prospects, says Father Fallon...
Paulette Goddard was all set to play Lucretia Borgia. Producer Lester Cowan was about to go ahead with a film version of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited. The Broadway hit of 1927, Burlesque (a hit revival on Broadway in 1947-48), had its title changed to When My Baby Smiles at Me. There would be a remake of Little Women, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien and Janet Leigh as the four March girls. A sequel to The Jolson Story was announced; this time Al Jolson would play himself...