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...Shoemaker as the self-righteous, over-protective mother; Lucy Landau as a frank, portly horserace-enthusiast; Edgar Kent as a quiet ex-schoolmaster; Ralph Purdum as a liberal-minded medical student; Audrey Ridgwell as the coolly over-efficient hotel proprietress with a warm heart; and Adele Thane and Barbara Lester as waitresses. Only Ann Stanwell, as the student's girl, is below...
...practices." But Goldfine's son, H. Maxwell Goldfine, talking to a TIME correspondent a few weeks before his father's testimony, had another version of how the hoped-for settlement was sought. He blamed Einiger Mills, Inc., a Goldfine competitor, for prompting FTC complaints. A lawyer named Lester Lazarus, continued "Mack" Goldfine, had done some of the work for Einiger. The Goldfines solved this problem by hiring Lazarus for the Goldfine legal team. The lawyer then went to work on settling the FTC complaint. Lazarus, said young Goldfine, made several trips to Washington, where he entertained FTC people...
Death of a Poet. Author Holmes, a leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond...
Critical Ignition. In Milwaukee, when a court wanted to know why Lester J. Schneider had obtained 15 delays of his trial for arson, Schneider's attorney explained that his client had on separate occasions been hit by a train, operated on for appendicitis, hospitalized also for a kidney ailment, a sprained ankle, and injuries resulting from a fall from the roof of a barn...
...Married. Lester ("The Debutantes' Delight") Lanin, fiftyish, wiry, jumpy bandleader whose ubiquitous multicelled society orchestra commands fees up to $15,000, has been known to play for as many as 25 widely scattered parties in a single night; and Marilyn Weiss, 22, his secretary; both for the first time; in York...