Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burrows himself, unlike the press agent, confesses that he is rather puzzled by the paradoxical history of Silk Stockings. After tomorrow night, however, neither he nor the agent will have to wonder say longer about the play's future. The fate of this enigmatic production will then rest squarely on the typewriters of seven equally enigmatic New York critics...
...said that Ike had twice invited him to visit the U.S.. and that he still dreams of doing so. Did Ike's recollection confirm that Zhukov memory? It surely did, said the President. "Now, when I asked him to visit our country, I was acting as the agent of my Government, which directed me to do so, and more than that, arrangements had been made once. My plane had been put at his disposal, and my son was detailed as his aide. And I remember he made the remark, 'Well, I shall certainly be safe,' with...
Serov did not belong either to the presidium of party or government. An old GPU agent, whose most notable exploits were liquidating the Baltic and Chechen peoples during World War II, Serov is a tall, cadaverous man who walks unevenly. The Germans knew him as "the one with the limp." They made his acquaintance in the Ukraine, where he is said to have worked with Khrushchev...
...Kitt, departed from the script to murmur: "I can't go through with it." Then she departed from the stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked wan in her dressing room after beginning an indefinite routine of commuting between the theater and a Manhattan hospital...
...invitation extended yesterday to the McGuire sisters, now appearing in Boston, was promptly refused by their agent. "They don't even perform for crippled children," Lumbard said. The agent said that a free appearance would set a precedent that would be too costly...