Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After telling the McCarthy committee that derogatory material on employees sometimes strangely disappeared from State Department personnel files, departmental Security Agent John Matson was switched from his desk job to a pavement-pounding assignment. It was a low-echelon switch which Dulles would probably never have heard of if McCarthy had not hit the headlines by protesting about reprisals against Matson. Within a few days Matson was restored to his desk...
...first, it seems simple. Blanche Loyd, a real-estate agent, offers to sell the old house in which she lives with Lily, her blind, 80-year-old mother. But Komar soon discovers that he is becoming entangled with people rather than buying a house. Blanche Loyd is the first woman in years who can ruffle the dull passage of his life. The ancient Lily, still brimming with life, jeeringly mistakes him for still another of her daughter's suitors-or pretends to, since she does not want to sell the house. Both of them challenge Komar's ineffectual...
...daily Express Wieczorny published its own list of bestsellers in the U.S. book trade. No. 1: Ernest Hemingway's saga of a fisherman and a marlin, The Old Man and the Sea-"A tale of rampant sexualism." No. 2: Whittaker Chambers' Witness-"Memoirs of a former FBI agent...
...petition to the State Department, demanding that the U.S. citizenship of Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, papal nuncio to Ireland, be revoked. His reason: Archbishop O'Hara, a native-born American whose diocese is Savannah-Atlanta, Ga., is violating the McCarran Act by serving as an agent of a foreign power. Said Blanshard, in a press conference over his action: "Americans believe that no American can be a good citizen whose loyalties are divided between his own state and a foreign state...
...White Rabbit, by Bruce Marshall. The incredible-but-true story of Yeo Thomas, the Molyneux couturier who turned British agent, became a leader of the French Resistance (TIME...