Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers, producers and directors dredged up last year by the congressional investigation of Communism in Hollywood was 44-year-old Screenwriter Lester Cole, a balding little man who earned up to $1,350 a week turning out such epics as The Romance of Rosy Ridge and Fiesta for MGM. Like the others, he had refused to say whether or not he was then or ever had been a member of the Communist Party. After he was cited for contempt of Congress, M-G-M suspended him from his job, giving as its reason the charge that he had violated...
Skeptics. In Viola, Wis., Lester Heal smugly reported to police that burglars had smashed into his safe labeled "No money here," had gone away emptyhanded...
When TIME'S Lester Bernstein and Researcher Jean Sulzberger turned up at Actress Tallulah Bankhead's country home recently for a 3 p.m. pre-cover story (TIME, Nov. 22) interview, Tallulah, "up and dressed," met them at the door and began to talk. After 20 breathless minutes she suddenly stopped her torrential discourse and said: "Now, ask me another question." Says Miss Sulzberger: "We hadn't even opened our mouths...
...government was ready to talk. Defense Minister Brooke Claxton led off in a coast-to-coast broadcast. Said he: "We are working out with other free nations plans for joint defense based on self-help and mutual aid." Three days later, External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson had his piece ready...
...When Lester Furnival saw her husband vanish into thin air before her eyes, she thought at first that he must be a ghost. Then she realized that she was one. For a while, Lester and her sniveling girl friend Evelyn (they had been killed by the same crashing plane) were lonely in the soundless, deserted London they haunted. But then they got involved with a gaunt, ascetic emissary of the Devil named Simon Leclerc (he was disguised as a popular religious leader and preached about Love...