Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with the normal heritage of broken noses, trick elbows and collapsible knees, old football players often take with them into later life the habit of explaining contemporary events in terms of gridiron metaphor. Last week Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Lester Bowles Pearson, onetime University of Toronto football coach, said at an Ottawa banquet...
...Landlords in Tulsa, Chicago, Denver and Kansas City threatened to evict tenants and take more than 100,000 apartments off the market if rent control is extended. In Kansas City, the Rev. R. Lester Mondale indignantly notified a group of rebel property owners gathered in his church's meeting hall that he had increased their rent for the hall from $10 to $100 a meeting...
...Love (music & lyrics by Allan Roberts & Lester Lee; sketch editor, Max Shulman; produced by Sammy Lambert & Anthony B. Farrell) adds another to this season's rash of revues. It is one of the rashest-expensive, elaborate, and about as intimate as army maneuvers. This is not a wise setup for Grace & Paul Hartman (Angel in the Wings). At their best as nightclub zanies, the Hartmans are dwarfed by so large a landscape-and rather flattened out by their lines...
Last week, the R.C.A.F. announced that Air Vice Marshal Kenneth M. Guthrie, an oldster of 49, was retiring from the service. To replace him as boss of the North West Command it named Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lester Campbell...
Twenty-five years ago, at the University of Toronto, three history lecturers became fast friends. Two, Lester Bowles Pearson and Hume Wrong, went into Canada's foreign service; George Parkin de Twene-brokes Glazebrook stayed on as a history professor. During the war, Mike Pearson drafted Glazebrook to help him in the Department of External Affairs. Last week Glazebrook was drafted again, to direct Canada's Joint Intelligence Bureau...