Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance agent for President Eisenhower, who arrives tomorrow, Dulles met with French Premier Felix Gaillard, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, and NATO's secretary general, Paul-Henri Speak...
...college administration, which is tradition-bound to deal severely with students convicted of criminal charges, could deal fairly and mildly with the hapless candidate. While he should not be absolved of all responsibility, it should be remembered that he was, in a sense, acting as the Lampoon's agent when he slugged Santa. If the administration and the city feel that they must take some action, they should chastise the Lampoon and suggest that its editors confine their wilder bursts of hilarity to the privacy of 44 Bow Street...
...routine, he would have dropped by his office first for a quick check of the work on his desk. This time, leaving his new home on Forest Lane at 8 a.m., he ordered his limousine straight to the White House, forgot even to notify his daytime Secret Service agent, who showed up at the Senate Office Building and was embarrassed to learn that Nixon was across town...
...year ago Pasternak arranged with Italian Publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli for the simultaneous publication in Russia and Italy of Dr. Zhivago, a vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
Died. George T. Bye, 70, topflight literary agent who pushed the writing careers of such notables as Rebecca West, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott and Charles A. Lindbergh, encouraged his close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to start her syndicated column "My Day"; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn...