Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Abraham Glasser, 38, of the Rutgers Law School, was called because FBI reports alleged that as a special attorney in the Department of Justice in 1938, he gave information to three OGPU agents known as "X," "Nikolai Stern" and "Ovakimian." Another Justice Department report cleared him of being a Communist agent, but recommended that he be dismissed for "careless and improper" disclosure of official information. When the committee asked whether he could identify photographs of "X" or "Stern," Glasser refused to answer. About the only thing he would say: he is not now an "actual, official, card-carrying, organizationally...
...Women was also directly responsible for ending Ros's career as Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl. In 1939, a Danish-born theatrical agent named Frederick Brisson was crossing the Atlantic on the overcrowded, submarine-dodging S. S. Washington. His deck chair was just outside the main lounge where The Women, the only film aboard, was played and replayed endlessly throughout the stormy crossing. Says Brisson: "I'd hear those screaming voices. I couldn't stand it. After the 12th or 13th day, I went in to see it. I saw every other performance until...
Freddy Brisson, who went to work as a Hollywood agent, is resigned to being introduced as "Rosalind Russell's husband." Before they were married, he was usually introduced as his father's brother, because Singer Carl Brisson feared that having a grown son might handicap his career...
Sales Resistance. In Baltimore, while Insurance Agent Manuel Hyman was trying to sell him a policy covering losses from holdups, Liquor Store Proprietor William Gross was held up by three gunmen, still couldn't decide whether to buy a policy...
...professional National Basketball Association for $10,000 or the famed Harlem Globetrotters for $15,000. Dukes, who once spoke with disdain of pro basketball and talked of becoming a lawyer, now coyly parries all questions about his future with the professional entertainer's standard comment: "See my agent...