Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Justice has recently begun investigating the Korean lobbying activities and Congress has indicated that it plans to initiate a similar investigation. The defection last week of KCIA agent Kim Sang Keun, now under Justice Department protection and reportedly cooperating with the inquiry, is expected to facilitate the investigations. The Justice Dept. and impending Congressional investigations should be pursued vigorously...
...King Arthur and His Noble Knights, an unfinished reworking of Malory posthumously published by his wife and his editor, Chase Horton. "My purpose will be to put it into a language which is understandable and acceptable to a modern-day reader, Steinbeck wrote to Elizabeth Otis, his literary agent. "The work applications in the present day and roots in our libing literature...
CALIFORNIA, that vast American raisin in the sun, is the hero in Tom Dardis's account of the Hollywood years of five writing greats. In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose wife was in a sanitorium, whose agent was unable to sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately...
...appears from published reports that one of the theories the Hiss defense is operating under at this point is that if there was a frame-up it had much more to do with the activities of a private detective, whom the Hiss defense alleges was a FBI double agent, rather than (attacking) HUAC or Mr. Nixon or someone like that...
...lives in isolation. Someone should talk to her son, who's a journalist in Washington--and I have talked to him on several occasions--who's suspicious of the whole outside world including the FBI, Nixon, all these other people. Someone should talk to Maxim Lieber, this literary agent forced to flee the country. (Lieber was accused by Chambers of involvement in the Communist underground...