Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...openly demanded "an end to this present regime of gendarmes and bureaucrats." The Russians sent First Deputy Premier Mikoyan down to Budapest to suggest that Rakosi take a health cure in Russia. The Russian solution: to supplant one gendarme bureaucrat by another. Old-Line Stalinist Erno Gero, the ruthless agent "Pedro" of the Spanish civil war (TIME, July 30), was pushed into the Hungarian leadership in July of this year, and told to clear his "liberalization" plans with Tito...
...concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and will not be published as previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson insisted that her stillborn work "did not concern or discuss the personal life of Candidate Stevenson." To appease breathless bibliophiles, she let prying newshawks in on one fragment of admonition that would have...
Divorced. By Jayne Mansfield, 23, Broadway blonde (Witt Success Spoil Rock Hunter?): Publicity Agent Paul Mansfield, 26; after six years of marriage, 21 months of separation, one child (Jayne Marie, 5); in Los Angeles...
Meneghini sold out his business, invested the proceeds in real estate, and became Maria's private impresario and only agent. "Why should I give those damned agencies 10% or 20% of what I make?" she asked. Meneghini coaxed old Conductor Tullio Serafin, now 77, to coach her, and the two went to work. In Turin, before she was to appear as Aida, a curious critic wandered into the theater at 9 a.m. to find her onstage, going over every passage again and again. while Serafin interrupted, corrected, polished tirelessly. They worked until midnight, were at it again early next...
...apiece. Another company, which forgot to order World Series tickets awarded to a contest winner, put in an urgent call to its New York advertising agency to find four seats, got clipped $208 over the box-office price. As one adman explained: "We have a perfectly honest agent who gets our tickets at regular prices. We have very little trouble-just tip him around $250 each Christmas...