Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heard the Un-American Activities Committee recommend that the pinko National Lawyers Guild be added to the Attorney General's subversive list as an agent of the Soviet Union and that its 3,891 members be forbidden to work for the U.S. Government...
Married. Margaret Sullavan, 41, husky-voiced star of stage (The Voice of the Turtle) and screen (No Sad Songs for Me); and Kenneth Arthur Wagg, 41, London businessman (malted milk); she for the fourth time (previous husbands: Actor Henry Fonda, Director William Wyler, Producer-Agent Leland Hayward), he for the second; on Long Island...
...Peace Information Center, a Manhattan outfit which has been a wholesale distributor of the Red-sponsored Stockholm "Peace" Petition, was directed by the Department of Justice to register as agent of a foreign power...
...Arsenic and Old Lace, the picture manages nevertheless to make its irreverence amusing while generally clearing the hurdles of poor taste. It trips only when it tries to be conventional, i.e., with a love triangle in which Victor Mature, as a claims investigator, and local Insurance Agent Leif Erickson compete for the affections of Stella (Ann Sheridan), the family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from...
...Britons could depend on help from guerrillas and from intelligence corpsmen hidden in the hills. One British agent, a Cretan, actually lived next door to General Kreipe's Villa Ariadne, near the north coast. Through him, Moss and Leigh-Fermor learned the general's daily routine to a nicety-off to headquarters by car at 9 a.m., back in the evening any time after 8 or 8:30 p.m., depending on how many rubbers of bridge he stayed to play...