Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin, fast enough to be set up in a comfortable Cambridge apartment when he transferred to Harvard. After graduating cum laude (history and government) in 1942, Susskind served a tour in the Navy before he began running in earnest. Work as a movie pressagent, then as an actors' agent, taught him his stride. But he began to move out in front when he joined his friend Alfred,Levy, also an actors' agent, formed Talent Associates and began to package television shows...
...most successful merchandisers of charm to U.S. women is Slenderella International, whose 150 salons played soft music while vibrating tables shook excess inches off flabby matrons. Last week Slenderella itself underwent a slimming treatment. Patrols of Internal Revenue Service agents, watches carefully synchronized, swooped down on Slenderella salons in 24 cities, slapped on liens for $1,235,445 in unpaid taxes, picked up any cash handy. So swiftly did the action come that Slenderella managers and patrons were taken completely off guard. In New York City two women entered while a revenue agent was scooping up cash from the registers...
Bunker further pointed out that Bunche had, according to a Senate probe, "repeatedly pressured persons in charge of UN employment to hire a notorious Communist agent." Another member of the Veritas Committee, Kenneth D. Robertson '29, said there is "no question" that the loyalty board which cleared Bunche of subversive charges was "the object of intense Communist pressure...
Alias Jesse James (Hope Enterprises; United Artists), for moviegoers who have almost given up Hope, is a pleasant surprise: a Bob Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his career by writing a $100,000 insurance policy for a man who avers that he is "well known in railroad and banking circles." Only later does Hope realize that he has insured the life of the nation's No. 1 public enemy: Jesse James (Wendell Corey...
Auto-Trip Insurance. To give motorists trip insurance as convenient as airline flight insurance, Charlotte, N.C. Businessmen Walter Shapiro and Morris Speizman thought up Insuratrip, Inc. Motorists seeing an Insuratrip sign at gas stations dial a designated local agent's telephone number, buy coverage at the rate of 25? per $2,500 per day, up to $25,000, deposit coins in a coin box placed close to the telephone. The policy itself is mailed to the insured's beneficiary by the agent. In operation only since December, Insuratrip now does business in four eastern states, has applied...