Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became interested in politics, appeared on behalf of Democratic office seekers, and as a reward was made a field agent for the city water and power department...
Notes on the Table. A few days before the brotherhood's 92 were sentenced, one of Nasser's courts decreed a life sentence for Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin, 52, who was accused of passing security information to an alleged CIA agent named Bruce Taylor Odell, officially listed as a political attaché at the U.S. embassy in Cairo (TIME, Aug. 6, 1965). Nasser's government claimed that Amin, a longtime confidant of Nasser before his arrest, met Odell regularly to divulge information on such matters as Nasser's relations with his Vice President and with...
...publishing photostats of Raquel's license to marry one James Wesley Welch in Clark County, Nev., on May 8, 1959. It was a minor coup. What Raquel-watchers really pine to know is whether she's currently married to Patrick Curtis, 31, her agent, business partner and steady house guest. "I neither deny nor confirm the report that we are married," said Curtis, adding darkly: "Nobody will be able to come up with a photostat of a marriage or anything like that...
...will be on deck for the third straight season with The Star Spangled Girl, who is an ex-Olympic swimmer, while Comic Woody Allen has turned playwright with Don't Drink the Water, a comedy that laughs at the cold war. Gertrude Berg will play a theater-party agent in The Play Girls, and Alfred Drake and Joan Greenwood will star in a comedy about Hamlet's strolling players...
...rhapsodizing or getting married or divorced (four times each), Jessel is working on a novel, The Empty Side of the Bed. Considering that he spends so much time at other people's funerals, it is hard for his friends to avoid the obvious question: When That Great Agent Up Yonder Books Jessel's Last Act, who will deliver the eulogy? As it happens, Jessel is toying with plans for a four-star performance featuring two Los Angeles rabbis, a Roman Catholic archbishop, and Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. Then again, Jessel may simply write...