Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emotionally, Cozzens drifted until he was himself possessed by love. He first met Sylvia Bernice Baumgarten in mid-1926 on business, when she was a fledgling literary agent for Brandt & Kirkpatrick (now Brandt & Brandt). Of his feelings at the time, he says laconically: "I suppose sex entered into it. After all, what's a woman for?" But in dedicating Son of Perdition, Cozzens was more gallant. The flyleaf is inscribed to her with these lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Outliving her beauty's outward, with a mind/ That doth renew swifter than blood decays." Cozzens...
...director, he persuaded Leopold Stokowski to make his first motion picture (The Big Broadcast of 1937). Even the U.S. Government capitulated to his charm. During Boris' twelve-year stint as an undercover man keeping tabs on Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last week, with the Soble spy ring (TIME, Aug. 19) cracked as a result of his information, and Boris Morros' counterspy career over at last, the Justice Department allowed its departing "special special agent" a hail-and-farewell press conference...
...Special Special Agent Morros unfolded details of his espionage career, it was Soviet Embassy Second Secretary Vassili Zubilin who first asked him to become a Soviet spy in 1943. From then on real life and reel life were sometimes indistinguishable. There were tales of a coded message in which the word Cinerama really meant "You are in danger. Come home at once." There were hairbreadth escapes; i.e., one day in Moscow while Morros was in conference with Soviet Spy Chief Lavrenty P. Beria, an incoming message accused him of disloyalty. Boris charmed the Russians into believing that the American woman...
Last week in Rio de Janeiro more than a hundred experts-some top medical men, some ethnologists and botanists-got together for the world's first International Symposium on Curare and Curare-like Agents. For in the meantime, curare has passed from the jungles, where it is an agent of death, to the most aseptic operating theaters, where it is an important aid in many a life-saving operation...
...Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted Bolshevik, simply a self-dramatizing wreck of a man without faith, family or country. His only love on earth is a prostitute called Lola (also a secret agent on the side). His condition is well understood by an ex-Catholic Pole, a sadist beast named Kowalski, who taunts Brennan with the knowledge that in following a dream of heaven on earth, he has lost honor on earth and all hope of heaven. A true nihilist, Kowalski knows himself...