Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wisconsin's bull-shouldered Joe McCarthy, batted down time after time, just wouldn't stay down. Last week ex-Marine McCarthy took the Senate floor to continue his case against the man he called the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S. At frequent intervals, he sipped from a small brown bottle of cough medicine. By the time he had finished, four hours later, his thinning black hair was rumpled and damp with sweat. His necktie was loosened and yanked askew...
...United States has been ..." A found disloyal Government to the worker's career and Government reputation, he added, are now "at the mercy not only of an innocently mistaken informer but also of a malicious or demented one unless his defect is apparent to the [FBI] agent who interviews him . . . We cannot preserve our liberties by sacrificing them...
...Hugo had a rare talent-he could make wonderful $5 bills. Said Secret Service Supervising Agent Harry Anheier: "I have never seen anyone who could rival him. His greens were wonderful...
Finally, early this-year, an agent heard that a Paul Hansen was buying two lots near Grayslake, Ill. The Secret Service found that Hansen was Hugo. He was operating a small photographic shop in Chicago. The Secret Service trailed him for 2½ months, watching for his first suspicious move. Two weeks ago grey-haired, 57-year-old Hugo began buying copper sulphate, dry-cell batteries, and other telltale equipment. He was planning to make "one last batch." He hoped to pass it, build a house and settle down to the joys of being an honest man. Last week Secret...
...suggestions for improving their manuscripts, but he realized that a main function was to prop their drooping egos while they worked. To Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings he wrote, "I can understand your feeling anxious, because a good writer always does, and ought to." Perkins became father confessor, literary adviser, financial agent and friend to his struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous Hemingway who hovered over his shoulder as Perkins read the last third...