In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

* Lester Crown ( born 1926 ), American businessman

In 1962, he sold his shares in ACB and with his son Tom formed Klutznick Enterprises, soon to be replaced by KLC Ventures, Ltd., a partnership with longtime associates Ferd Kramer, Jerrold Loebl, Norman Cohn and Lester Crown.

Lester Crown is also deeply involved with The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University.

The eastern and original part of the Center is now owned by Tishman Speyer and the Lester Crown family of Chicago.

Reinsdorf purchased the team from an ownership group that included Lamar Hunt, George Steinbrenner, Walter Shorenstein, Jonathan Kovler, Lester Crown, Philip Klutznick, and the estate of Arthur Wirtz, and he held a $ 9. 2 million controlling interest in the team.

* Adrian Lester ( born 1968 ), British actor

Patinkin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Doris " Doralee " ( Sinton ), a homemaker, and Lester Patinkin, who worked for the People's Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America.

Richard Hell ( born Richard Lester Meyers ; October 2, 1949 ) is a singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.

* Lester Cook ( born 1984 ) is an American professional tennis player.

William Christopher ( born October 20, 1932 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the television series M * A * S * H and Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C.

* Sean Lester ( 1888 – 1959 ) was born in Carrickfergus.

Lester Dickinson was born in Derby.

* Lester " Tug " Wilson ( 1885 – 1969 ), who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1911 season, was born in St. Louis.

* Tom Lester ( born 1938 ), actor who played " Eb " on the sitcom Green Acres

* Lester Archambeau ( born 1967 ), former professional football player.

* Lester C. McClelland, aircraft commander of Air Force One under Presidents Ford and Carter, 1974 – 1980 ; born September 25, 1932.

Les Paul was born Lester William Polsfuss outside Milwaukee, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to George and Evelyn ( 1888 – 1989 ) ( née Stutz ) Polsfus.

They had two children, Gene ( Lester Jr .), born in 1941 and named after actor-songwriter Gene Lockhart, and Russell ( Rusty ), born 1944, before divorcing in 1949.

Crawford was born William Broderick Crawford in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick, who were both vaudeville performers, as his grandparents had been.

Eisner was born in Mount Kisco, New York, the son of Margaret ( née Dammann ) and Lester Eisner, Jr. His great-grandfather, Sigmund Eisner, was one of the first uniform suppliers to the Boy Scouts of America.

He was born Lester Franklin Melrose in Sumner, Illinois, United States, the second of six children of Frank and Mollie Melrose who owned a small farm.

Richard Lester ( born 19 January 1932 ) is an American film director based in Britain.

Lester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

John Lester Wallack ( born John Johnstone Wallack ) ( January 1, 1820 New York, NY – September 6, 1888 Stamford, CT ), was an American actor and son of James William Wallack.

Lester Neil Smith III ( born May 12, 1946 ), better known as L. Neil Smith, is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist.

* Lester Piggott, jockey, was born in Wantage in 1935.

Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elizabeth ( née Bernstein ), a political science teacher, and Melvin Lester Taymor, a gynecologist.

Lester Bryant Bird ( born February 21, 1938 ) was the second Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004 and a well-known athlete.

* June 6 – Elizabeth II strips jockey Lester Piggott of his OBE, following his jailing for tax irregularities.

* June 12 – Kate Lester, English stage & silent screen actress ( d. 1924 )

* June 7, 1960: Blaine, Minnesota Lester Betts, a 40-year-old mail-carrier, walked into the office of 33-year-old principal Carson Hammond and shot him to death with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Federal Bureau of Prisons head Frank Hubbard ( Stephen J. Cannell ) and Supreme Court Justice June McPherson ( Linda Thorson ) have arrived to witness the execution, which is a result of June sentencing Lester.

When Sascha rescues Lester, the 49ers strap June to the electric chair and threaten to kill her, all while Ellen and her team prepare a rescue plan from the mainland.

Lester William Polsfuss ( June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009 )— known as Les Paul — was an American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter and inventor.

Returning to London in January 1958 he appeared as Philip Lester in A Touch of the Sun ( N. C. Hunter ) at the Saville Theatre — Best Actor in the Evening Standard Awards 1958 — before rejoining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company in June 1958, to play Hamlet and Benedick, also playing Hamlet with the company in Leningrad and Moscow in December 1958 ( while his wife Rachel Kempson played Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet ).

* June 25 Lester Maddox segregationist governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.

Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. ( September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003 ), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U. S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.

Curtis Lester " The Silver Fox " Patrick ( December 30, 1883 in Drummondville, Quebec – June 1, 1960 in Victoria, British Columbia ) was a professional ice hockey player and coach associated with the Victoria Aristocrats / Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( Western Hockey League after 1924 ), and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

Already dying of cancer, Lester died at his Victoria home of a heart attack on June 1, 1960, at the age of 76.

The term is usually used for rhetorical purposes, and was probably coined by Lester Pearson in June 1955 at the 10th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter: " the balance of terror has replaced the balance of power ".

* Lester Holloway, 3 June 2012: 25 years on, Krishna Maharaj ’ s extraordinary case will not be forgotten Retrieved 2012-07-09

Other actors include: Willie Aames, Anne Archer, Parley Baer, Jonathan Banks, Don " Red " Barry, Billy Barty, Richard Basehart, Ralph Bellamy, Lucille Benson, Ray Bolger, Ernest Borgnine, Todd Bridges, Joshua Bryant, Red Buttons, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Tom Clancy, Matt Clark, Jeff Corey, Nicolas Coster, Johnny Crawford, James Cromwell, David Faustino, Gil Gerard, Louis Gossett, Jr., Mariette Hartley, Eileen Heckart, Arthur Hill, John Hillerman, Rance Howard, Ernie Hudson, Rick Hurst, John Ireland, Burl Ives, Richard Jaeckel, Celia Kaye, Tom Lester, Robert Loggia, Mike Lookinland, Chuck McCann, Jan Merlin, Richard Mulligan, Patricia Neal, Georg Olden, Sean Penn ( uncredited ), Chris Petersen, Bill Quinn, Anne Ramsey, Madeleine Stowe, Ford Rainey, Kim Richards, Bing Russell, William Schallert, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Ronnie Scribner, Paula Shaw, Eric Shea, Raymond St. Jacques, Liam Sullivan, and Dolph Sweet.

* June 28 – 29 – U. S. Army Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger make the first transpacific flight from North America to the Hawaiian Islands, flying an Atlantic-Fokker C2 transport plane 2, 407 statute miles ( 3, 876 km ) from Oakland, California, to Wheeler Field, Territory of Hawaii, in 25 hours 50 minutes.

Other Rankin / Bass voice actors have included Andy Griffith, Burl Ives, Casey Kasem, Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Danny Kaye, Boris Karloff, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Ethel Merman, Vincent Price, Bob McFadden, Robie Lester, Linda Gary, Mickey Rooney, Morey Amsterdam, Marlo Thomas, Greer Garson, Angela Lansbury, June Foray, Don Messick, Jackie Vernon, Allen Swift, Robert Morse, Mia Farrow, and Shelley Winters.

Casting of the role of Ernie Pyle began in June 1944, after speculation about the role brought forth a large number of names as possibilities to producer Lester Cowan.

* Lester S. Hill, Cryptography in an Algebraic Alphabet, The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 36, June – July 1929, pp. 306 – 312.

Lester Leo Roloff ( June 28, 1914-November 2, 1982 ) was an American fundamental Independent Baptist preacher and the founder of teen homes across the American South.

After Lester quit the show in June 1950 ( soon to become the star of NBC's first late-night series, Broadway Open House ), Gleason — who had made his mark on the first television incarnation of The Life of Riley sitcom — stepped into Cavalcade on July 15, 1950, and became an immediate sensation.

Lester F. Ward ( June 18, 1841 – April 18, 1913 ) was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist.

Basic's list of authors includes Christopher Andrew, Anthony Appiah, Isaac Asimov, Robert Axelrod, Susan R. Barry, Daniel Bell, John Bradshaw, Allan Brandt, Richard Brookhiser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William F. Buckley, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Stephanie Coontz, Dinesh D ’ Souza, Devra Davis, Richard Dawkins, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, Michael Eric Dyson, Thomas B. Edsall, Richard Evans, Graham Farmelo, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Robin Lane Fox, Sigmund Freud, Howard Gardner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clifford Geertz, George Gilder, Barry Glassner, Robert Harms, Judith L. Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Samuel P. Huntington, Jacqueline Jones, June Jordan, Leszek Kołakowski, Lawrence Krauss, Irving Kristol, George Lakoff, Edward Larson, Christopher Lasch, Mary Lefkowitz, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bernard Lewis, Robert Jay Lifton, Jeff Madrick, Nelson Mandela, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ernst Mayr, Walter A. McDougall, John McWhorter, Dana Milbank, Alice Miller, Walter Mosley, Charles Murray, Richard John Neuhaus, Donald Norman, Robert Nozick, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., James T. Patterson, Orlando Patterson, Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Juliet Schor, Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lee Smolin, Timothy Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Ian Stewart, Cass Sunstein, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Lester Thurow, Sherry Turkle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Michael Walzer, Elizabeth Warren, George Weigel, Steven Weinberg, Cornel West, Frank Wilczek, A. N.

Seán Lester ( 28 September 1888, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland – 13 June 1959, Galway, Ireland ) was an Irish diplomat and the last Secretary General of the League of Nations, from 31 August 1940 to 18 April 1946.