Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year since World War II-Canadians for the second time in a year are about to choose a new government. Bidding for a stronger mandate, after only nine months in office, is Tory Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 62. His leading challenger in the March 31 election: Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, longtime Secretary of State for External Affairs in a government that ruled Canada for 22 years up to last June...
...years as the restlessly perfectionist editor of the New York Times's fat, sober Sunday supplements, Lester Markel, 64, has always put fact above fancy (and reaps his reward in juicy ads for bras, girdles and lingerie). In the latest Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Markel chides other editors for stressing entertainment. "I have been impelled at times," says he, "to inquire whether [we] should not properly be called The Froth Estate...
...THEFT has brought conviction of Oil Promoter Odie R. Seagraves, 70, and Extortionist Emanuel Lester, who tried to sell maps for $500,000 (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). Secret geologic maps of oil lands were turned over to them by a former Gulf Oil Corp. employee who stole maps from the company. Judge fined aged Seagraves $5,000, sentenced his cohort Lester to three years...
...Office of Student Placement will hold a career conference on Engineering and Applied Physics at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House Dining Room. C. Lester Hogan, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, will moderate the discussion between Arthur Kantrowitz, Director of the Avco Research Labs, J. R. Pierce, a director of the Bell Labs, and Thomas L. Phillips, Raytheon Missile System Director...
...higher 1958 prices the trouble? The Senators heard Chrysler's President Lester Lum Colbert implicitly deny it. "Tex" Colbert insisted that automakers can still have a good year "as soon as we get over this psychological thing" of recession-minded customers. "Prices are only a part of competition," he said. "You just can't go along with supply and demand. You price over a long-range program." Chrysler tried smaller cars in 1953-54. They were shunned in favor of larger (and cheaper) models made by G.M. and Ford. Chrysler tried cutting prices...