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unusual facts about About Mrs. Leslie


Ketti Frings

Her Hollywood movie screenplays include Guest in the House (1944), The File on Thelma Jordon (1950), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), About Mrs. Leslie (1954), The Shrike (1955), and Foxfire (1955).


Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges

The dedication ceremony featured Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon and Indiana governor Harry G. Leslie shaking hands with one another, as 22 military planes under the command of Jimmy Doolittle flew overhead with cannon fire and boat whistles in the distance celebrating the occasion.

Harry G. Leslie

Leslie enjoyed humor and among his close friends were George Ade and Will Rogers.

Following his governorship Leslie became a founder, and eventually the president, of Standard Life Insurance Company in Indianapolis.

Henrietta Ward

An only child, the young Henrietta grew up surrounded by and familiar with her parents' artist acquaintances, including Sir Edwin Landseer, C. R. Leslie, and the brothers John James and Alfred Edward Chalon.

Jack Kilby

Berlin, Leslie The man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 ISBN 0-19-516343-5

Philosophy in Canada

Armour, Leslie; Trott, Elizabeth, The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada 1850-1950, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 1981.


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