Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking sad when he had to veto the school program that the sales tax would have supported. In outspoken contrast, Professor (of Agricultural Economics) Murray lectures that the sales tax is the only way to keep property taxes from "going through the ceiling," generally talks like a friendly revenue agent. Unless he can pull off a miracle to top his primary performance, his campaign against Loveless is likely to be just a water haul for the ailing Iowa G.O.P...
...remembered as the most ballyhooed babies of the century, the four surviving Dionne quintuplets-Marie, Annette, Cecile and Yvonne-gathered at Marie's Montreal apartment to celebrate their 24th birthday, let word slip out that Cecile, married to TV Technician Philippe Langlois, and Annette, wife of Finance Company Agent Germain Allard, expect babies within four months. Both girls allowed they wanted lots of children but no quints: "Too much publicity...
High School Confidential (M-G-M), based on the story (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951) of a young narcotics agent who broke up a Texas dope ring by posing as a teen-age addict, is written in the sort of hipsterical slanguage that can only be understood by the underprivileged few who really dig that crazy talk. The film is reviewed by TIME's Endsville correspondent...
...merit of the new anthology, edited by TV Producer Gene Feldman, 37, and Literary Agent Max Gartenberg, 32, is that it answers this question better collectively than any one of the semi-articulate Beats and Angries has done on his own. The editors have culled the best from both schools (the U.S.'s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Clellon Holmes; Britain's Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Osborne) and leavened the lot with sharp-eyed critical commentaries from both sides of the water. U.S. readers will find the Beat section more interesting, if only because it helps to illuminate...
...Little Woman. In Sacramento, Ronald Dean Johnson filed suit for annulment of his marriage, charged that his wife 1) said she was 32 but is actually 47, 2) claimed to be a secret federal agent but is actually a dance-hall girl, 3) alleged widowhood although her former husband is alive in Texas, 4) told him about her ten-year-old child but forgot to mention the ones...