Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound-Off Time (Sun. 7 p.m., NBCTV) alternates three comics (Bob Hope, Jerry Lester, Fred Allen) and one dramatic show (Dragnet) each month. So far, Hope has been noisily funny; Lester, noisily unfunny; and Fred Allen still baffled by the new medium. Allen made his usual acid jokes about admen and television, presided over three skits that didn't quite come off, gloomily croaked a singing commercial for Sponsor Chesterfield, but was unable to approach the comedy highs he reached on radio...
James Barton, remembered by many audiences for his 2,000 performances as Jeeter Lester in "Tobacco Road," is cast as the aging speculator. Although he had some trouble with his throat on opening night, he carried off his part well, singing ballads in the manner of the late Walter Huston and also coming through with an amusing buck and wing...
...Lester S. Cramer '30, one time king-pin of a vast tutoring school operation which involved thousands of University students, is back in Cambridge again--this time as Lester S. Cramer...
...Presented Democratic Senators Joseph O'Mahoney and Lester Hunt with something new in the way of White House mementos: brier pipes with bowls carved into likenesses of the presidential countenance-bifocals...
First round play in the tennis tournament ends tomorrow evening. Those of the 58 entrants who have failed to meet their scheduled opponents must get excuses to Lester Medlinsky, Holworthy 2, by 5 p.m. Plans call for the second round to end by Wednesday. With only two first-round days left, play has been very slow, with many entrants awaiting the last available hours...