Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dawes, General Pershing's chief purchasing agent in World War I, earned his nickname when a 1921 congressional committee was investigating war expenditures. Asked Indiana's Representative Bland: "Is it not true that excessive prices were paid for mules?" Roared Dawes: "Hell 'n' Maria! I would have paid horse prices for sheep if the sheep could have pulled artillery to the front!" * Hughes wore no eyepatch until about five years ago (see cut), is reluctant to discuss it because of Christian Science attitudes toward injury and disease. He credits Christian Science with curing an illness that...
...must go to the camera team of Alfred and Emma Milotte. They have managed to capture some of the world's most dangerous and elusive animals in intimate moments of playfulness and violence, a task requiring obvious skill and patience, and, one assumes, considerable risk. For once, the press agent's claim that it took three years to collect these few outstanding pictures is not only believable; it seems like understatement...
Judging an Agent. There was plenty more to the General American case. In a suit to recover $6,640,000 for 57,000 creditors, policyholders and stockholders, the state accused the company of buying political influence in Kentucky. When Kentucky Insurance Commissioner S. H. Goebel indicated two years ago that he would investigate General American's operations in his state, General American Director Connie C. Schuchard went to Kentucky and, charged the suit, "hired John A. Keck, a district judge of the state . . . and Wade Hall, an insurance man, to exert their political influence in order to prevent Commissioner...
DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT TIME'S DEC. 26 STORY ON "WISDOM" MAGAZINE WAS PRESENTED TO YOUR READERS WITH SUCH INACCURACY AND INDIFFERENCE. I AM NOT AN "EX-MOVIE PRESS-AGENT." I AM A FORMER SCREEN WRITER AND NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUMNIST ; MY LAST FILM ASSIGNMENT TOOK PLACE MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AGO ; SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO PREPARING AND DEVELOPING "WISDOM...
...familiar faces crossed the scene. Crowds heard again from Edouard Daladier, France's agent at Munich, and Paul Reynaud, Premier when France fell. Aged (83) but intrepid Edouard Herriot got from meeting to meeting in his wheelchair. Bodyguards propped ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez before microphones to breathe a few words on behalf of Red candidates...