Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of his time in Europe. Just what he was up to was a puzzle to his old Hollywood acquaintances. Shortly after the FBI nabbed the Sobles, the Justice Department identified Morros as its star witness. There were strong hints that Morros had been serving as a U.S. secret agent while operating inside the conspiracy as a trusted courier...
Willmore Kendall, assistant professor of political science at Yale, last night challenged the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer on the grounds that he might be a communist agent...
Speaking in a debate sponsored by the Harvard Athenaeum, Kendall quoted a former executive director of the Atomic Energy Commission who charged that Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy. "If he was ever an agent," said Kendall, "the presumption is that he still is an agent of the Soviet Union, and Harvard University is an accomplice in treason...
While cancer of the lung has become much more prevalent in recent years, cancer of the mouth has not. Medical researchers have been puzzled by this, since cancer-causing agents, e.g., tobacco tar, reach the lungs through the mouth. In the Journal of the American Dental Association, investigators offer two tentative explanations: saliva has a protective effect, though whether this is brought about simply by washing away the cancer agent or by combating it chemically is not known; the tissues of the mouth are so constructed as to constitute a kind of "physiological barrier" against the entry of cancer agents...
Worshipfully edited and annotated by Elizabeth Nowell, his literary agent, many of the letters are filled with denials of literate autobiographical intent, and concern law suits brought by individuals who felt themselves so pilloried. Yet the letters seem to point more clearly to how closely Wolfe did live his novels. The germs of so many incidents appear with the natural infelicity of statement characteristic of correspondence that make one wonder by what marvelous transformation his life was so skillfully wrought into art. And on another level, the letters wonderfully reveal the feeling and personalities of the time. Particularily interesting...