Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Room with Bath. City Editor Joseph, who probably does less editing than any city editor in the business, has no need for one of the swank new suites. They are reserved for Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Manager Julius Ochs Adler, Editor Charles Merz, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick and Managing Editor James, in case they are stuck at the paper all night. Joseph takes his leave of his morning-paper staff by 6 p.m. He and his assistants assign the Times's 150 reporters to stories, but the editing is done by copyreaders...
Sleepy Hollow (based on Washington living's Legend of Sleepy Hollow; book & lyrics by Russell Maloney, Miriam Battista and Ruth Hughes Aarons; music by George Lessner; produced by Lorraine Lester) is passably tuneful and monumentally tedious. Washington Irving's famous yarn of lanky, spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who was as ill-starred in love as in looks and was chased into immortality by the Headless Horseman-would seem likely material for a musical. It comes equipped with standard light-operatic fixtures: period atmosphere, picturesque locale, broad humor, folkish fantasy; it seems a cinch to wire for dancing...
...University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked out a movie script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers...
...Season. In Albuquerque, Sheriff's Deputy Lester Hay was obliged to inform two youths that the coal stove they had stolen against the fuel shortage was really the ice container off a water cooler...
...three-month CRIMSON investigation of the commercial cram bureau revival was initiated after discovery of a copy of a letter from Lester S. Cramer '30, sent to some of the College's social clubs and announcing readless "to provide tutoring for hour, mid-year and general examination in the major liberal arts studies...