Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smile gleaming with gold inlays. He hisses a greeting with all the ineffable politeness of an old-school Japanese. Who is he? Mr. Moto, of course, back in print after a 15-year absence owing to a slight unpleasantness between the U.S. and Japan. Author Marquand created his serial agent in the 19305 after a trip to the Orient, and it is strange to meet Moto again, now that Marquand is so much better known for his travels through New England and Suburbia...
...through the labyrinth of Asiatic intrigue. But Stopover: Tokyo is a brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what the shooting is all about. Instead of an adventurous idealist, Hero Jack Rhyce is a trained CIA agent, as callous and professional as Moto himself. Even the villain is American-a big, handsome Communist so crafty and devious that he hoodwinks Moto into arresting Rhyce as a spy. There is an even more startling difference: in the prewar Moto stories, the clean-cut American usually won the lovable...
When Marsh & McLennan was founded in 1871, insurance policies were still written in longhand, and the agent rash enough to book as much as $5,000 subject to a single loss was nicknamed "jumbo." But Henry W. Marsh, an agile, fast-talking supersalesman, and Donald R. McLennan, a careful technician who knew how to make salesmanship pay off, soon changed all that. M. & M. advised the Moore Brothers' Diamond Match Co. and National Biscuit Co. empire, won the insurance account for what later became U.S. Steel, convinced the Great Northern Railway that it should place its first comprehensive insurance...
...debut as a movie star of Jayne Mansfield, who has already achieved a tape measure's worth of fame through publicity stills. The plot is frankly built around the 23-year-old platinum blonde's physical proportions. A gangster who wants to marry Jayne has given an agent six weeks to build her up into a famous singer. The agent protests: "Rome wasn't built in a day." The gangster retorts: "She ain't Rome. She's built...
...Whiz. In Philadelphia, after a state liquor-control agent testified that Stripteuse Julie Gibson concluded her "Dance of the Bashful Bride" wearing only a G string, Julie assured the judge that she had never seen or heard of such a garment and had ended her undulations modestly draped in mesh panties, declared with indignation: "I have never worn anything less...