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...LESTER LOCKWOOD...
...years on Broadway, danced in the Ziegfeld Follies. His press-agent publicized him as "the man with the laughing feet." Professionals rated him as the world's No. 3 hoofer (No. 1, Bill Robin son; No. 2, Fred Astaire). But his reputation never satisfied him until he played Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (TIME, July 2, 1934). Barton tried out for the part, was picked to succeed Henry Hull, who was going to Hollywood, where Barton later followed him. Barton arrived by train, sending his Lincoln across the U. S. with his bicycle and six of his 40 dogs...
...quiet the hopefully palpitating hearts of a multitude of U. S. Negroes, the President last week named a Minister to Liberia, which his State Department recently recognized (TIME, June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife...
...Lester Adelson, Robert Amory, Henry Aranow, Jr., Herbert Cyrus Barrows, Jr., Carl Livermore Billman, John Alden Bovey, Jr., Beverly Munford Bowie, Robert Vincent Cleary, John Phillips Coolidge, John Cornell, Edward Alfred Crane, Norman Benjamin Davison, Ernest Fasano, Charles Benjamin Feibleman, Comstock Glaser, Victor Bennett Glunts, Boies Chittenden Hart, Jr., Dayton Wood Hull, Julius Kaplan, Wilfred Kaplan, Thomas Joseph Keary...
Walter R. Amesbury '36, Michaol W. Berliner 1GB, Burdick G. Clarke '38, Eric T. Clarke '38, William M. Ginsberg '37, Ernest W. James '38, Edward T. Ladd '38, William P. Lester '38, James L. Morrisson '38, Oglesby Paul '38, Willis H. Shapley '38, Robert W. Snyder '38, William F. Swann '37, and Warren P. Swett...