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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat left vacant by the death of Tory M.P. Lieut. Colonel Wentworth Schofield. Contesting the seat again for Labor was 47-year-old Jack McCann, a local diesel-engine fitter, who was handily defeated by Schofield in the last general election. A sturdy, 41-year-old real-estate agent from nearby Burnley named John Parkinson was to hold Rochdale for the Tories. The unexpected element in the race: Britain's long-dormant Liberals, who decided to enter the lists with a candidate of their own. He was Ludovic Kennedy, 38, Eton and Oxford, lecturer on current affairs and latterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prime Minister's Return | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...November morning in 1941, a Mazi counter-intelligence agent, Sergeant Hugo Bleicher, followed up a tip and burst into Toto's Paris hideout. By night-all The Cat was in a prison cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatal Ferret | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Said The Cat later: "Of course I realised that it was out of the question 'or me to stay in a place like that. Why. the water-closet smelled quite abominably." Next morning she became a German agent; that very night she became Bleicher's mistress. "[He was a] most disgusting sentimental beast," she remarked .ater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatal Ferret | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...with the help of a shrewd Allied agent, The Cat jumped again. Still Bleicher's mistress by night, she became a British agent by day. She managed to get to London, taking with her "a complete German radio code," and the British set to work sending false information back to Bleicher. But she hated London. "I don't feel that I am really liked or trusted," she complained. She was dead right. When her usefulness was ended, the British clapped her into jail, and at war's end handed her back to the French police in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatal Ferret | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Died. Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, 54, vice president (1950) of RCA and (since 1953) of NBC, longtime friend and agent to leading show-business stars (TIME, Dec. 17, 1956); of leukemia; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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