Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private Secretary (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS-TV) enters hoydenish Ann (Maisie) Sothern in the situation-comedy sweepstakes but, like many another imitator of I Love Lucy, it suffers from a feeble script. As secretary to a high-minded theatrical agent, Ann is shown masterminding his affairs, settling his domestic problems and using the wisecracks that TV seems to think make up the language of U.S. business. Most televiewers will find the comedy situations every bit as familiar and repetitive as the Lucky Strike commercials...
...liaison officer at Panmunjom, Kim Pa, who showed up at the truce talks disguised as either a sergeant or lieutenant, is actually a general, and formerly an agent in the Soviet secret police...
Giannini's Shrew was a joint enterprise for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the city's Music-Drama Guild, whose singers sang without pay. Shrew Katharina was sung by Dorothy Short, an insurance agent, Husband Petruchio by Robert Kircher, a professional trombone player. "The important thing," said Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson, "was to give all segments of the community a chance to take part...
World War II: Commanded the 82nd Airborne's artillery in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. In 1943, running risks which Eisenhower called "greater than I asked any other agent or emissary to undertake during the war," Taylor slipped through German lines into Rome for armistice negotiations with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. For 24 hours, wearing a U.S. uniform, he went about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer...
...plan to drop enough arms and equipment to the Resistance forces to raise up a formidable fifth column in France, and in February 1944 he was flown to France again to supervise the new program. A little more than three weeks later, Yeo-Thomas was betrayed by a liaison agent, and captured...