Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates for the committee are: William H. Aaron, George S. Abrams, Carmel J. Cohen, Howard L. Kastel, Martin K. King, Joshua M. Levin, Harold S. Levy, H. Lester Medlinsky, Reid B. Morrison, Albert E. Neisser, Bruce D. Phillips, Dirk H. Post, Robert L. Shapiro, Thomas W. Tavenner, and Leonard B. Weingarten...
...year-old Negro foundry worker named George Messengill decided that opportunity was knocking-the big prize was a four-year college scholarship. His wife Claire, a comely, red-haired white woman, agreed that it would be a wonderful chance for their 2½-year-old boy, Lester. Since the winning baby's popularity was to be decided by the sales of admission tickets, George began a one-man ticket-selling campaign...
...Little Lester, who had passed the "health & beauty" aspects of the contest earlier with flying colors (on the basis of doctors' measurements), was named Detroit's "grand-prize baby"-winner over 5,244 other Detroit children...
...George followed her. Until then, those in charge of the contest had had no intimation that the winner was the child of an interracial marriage. Fearing trouble, one of the judges hastily called, "Only one parent on the stage, please!" Otherwise, the discovery made no difference to the judge. Lester got his scholarship, a crown, a big silver cup, and a trip to Jim Crow Miami for the whole family. Said father George Messengill proudly: "The selection of Lester will go a long way to solving the racial problem...
...weekly press conference, External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson announced with a smile that Canada's ambassador in Washington had been asked to present a note to the U.S. State Department calling for "no further fantasies" of this kind. The U.S. Air Force blamed the inadvertent annexation of 1,929,600 square miles of Canadian territory on an overeager mapmaker who had merely tried to indicate U.S. bases in Newfoundland and U.S. weather and communications units stationed in northern Canada. Said the Air Force ponderously: "Any indication on maps or otherwise that the U.S. has jurisdiction over the area...