Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although Mr. Hunt is producer and "theatre man" of considerable accomplishment, I am sure he does not plan to use MeBAC to advance some drama group of his own at the expense of independent theatres--he would act as general supervisor of the whole project, would act as booking agent (as he has done with John Gielgud, the Theatre Nationale Populaire, and so on), and would no doubt also hire producers to present shows which would originate here in Boston. There is no limit to the size and variety of what can be done with MeBAC, but it must...
...most vital piece of intelligence since World War II was the report laid on President Truman's desk on Sept. 23, 1949, stating that the Russians had exploded their first atomic bomb. The report was the handiwork of no secret agent but a highly secret, highly effective U.S. detection system sensitive enough to pick up traces of important Soviet land or air bursts. For the first time the name of the hero of the system slipped into public print last week, when President Eisenhower presented a Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award to Atomic Detective Doyle L. (for Langdon) Northrup...
...book a different sort of motion picture during exam period," the press agent for the Brattle Theater disclosed. "We think students prefer escapism at this time." Last week the theatre presented a foreign gangster movie, Razzia...
...director of the Harvard Cooperative Society and served as class agent from...
Jews often tip the mailman to bring the return reply to them, rather than to the concierge, who is usually a Communist agent and apt to use the knowledge to grab the applicant's apartment or his possessions. When finally ready to go, emigrants must surrender all money and documents, and submit an inventory of their permitted 154 lbs. of luggage (132 lbs. for children). Furniture may not be taken with them, and it may not be legally sold. The emigrants are required to write and often to rewrite statements that they had never had it so good...