Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Greenglass, whose confession got his prison sentence down to 15 years, was backed up by the testimony of his wife Ruth. Convicted Spy Harry Gold told the court that, in May 1945, a Russian agent named Yakovlev had ordered him to go to Albuquerque to pick up some atom-bomb diagrams from Greenglass...
East Germany is apparently to be the scene of the next big Communist purge trial. Already the faggots are being gathered. The chief sacrificial victim seems to be East Germany's mouthy little propaganda boss, Gerhart Eisler, the former Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S. and stowed away on board the Polish liner Batory (TIME, May 23, 1949). Last week Eisler was fired and his ministry dissolved...
...Beautiful is a big, glossily wrapped package that contains a little bit of almost everything: a Hollywood funeral, party and premiere, a plane crash, a dramatic drunk scene, a seething love scene. The picture presents some standard Hollywood types, e.g., a yes-man (Paul Stewart), a small-time agent (Sammy White), a money-minded tycoon (Walter Pidgeon), a sexy bit-girl (Elaine Stewart). But, though some of the characters may be bad and others beautiful, few are either real or believable. As the actress, Lana Turner looks lushly beautiful. As the author, Dick Powell bases his characterization on tweedy suits...
...case of Owen Lattimore, the Johns Hopkins professor who powerfully influenced U.S. thinking and U.S. policy on China, finally reached the courts last week. In the three years since Senator Joseph McCarthy called Lattimore a "top Russian agent," the professor has 1) written a book in his own defense, Ordeal by Slander, that won applause from liberals; 2) appeared before one group of Senate investigators (the Tydings committee) whose majority cleared him handsomely; and 3) argued before another Senate hearing (Internal Security subcommittee) which denounced him as a "conscious, articulate instrument of Soviet conspiracy" and urged that he be brought...
...always in such stories, the agent of law & order, the unhappy cop or bumbling sheriff, who bit the most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...