Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood by while she checked in on United Air Lines Flight 629, bound for Portland, Ore. The three bags, a bulky, battered suitcase secured by two web straps, a briefcase and a smaller suitcase, weighed 87 Lbs. -37 Lbs. over the limit allowed each passenger. When the ticket agent told her she would have to pay $27 for the excess baggage, the mother, Mrs. Daisie King, turned to her son and said, "Thirty-seven Lbs. -do you think I'll need all this?" Replied the son, Jack Graham: "Yes, Mother, I'm 'sure you will need...
...been found to scatter. No one seems to know precisely what it is that makes them do it. Meteor trails are suspected in the case of VHF. Small "blobs" of irregularity in the electrical properties of the atmosphere up to 25,000 ft. are supposed to be the scattering agent for UHF. Whatever the cause, the waves do scatter, and special apparatus has been developed for the armed services to take advantage of the scattering. Some of the equipment is spectacular (see cut). Extra-powerful transmitters must be used, and two large receiving antennas placed well apart give better results...
Divorced. By Peter M. Churchill, 46, top British secret agent in occupied France during World War II (no kin to Sir Winston): Odette (full name: Odette Marie Celine Brailly), 43, famed Frenchborn allied spy who was arrested with Churchill by the Gestapo in 1943; after eight years of marriage; in London. Odette saved the life of Churchill (her commanding officer) by convincing the Nazis that he was only her husband who had entered spying at her insistence. She was tortured and imprisoned for two years, escaped to the U.S. lines in 1945, rejoined Churchill London, where she later married...
...makes no pretense at handling fact, nor does it seem very handy with fiction. It claims to tell stories of "people caught in the jaws of a vise, in a dilemma of their own making." Last week The Vise had a famous English actress meet a married real-estate agent in a small English town. Sample dialogue: "She: I'm in love with you. He: But you have the whole world at your feet. She: But it's you I want." She gets him. But then he gets her. It seems he is worried about his good name...
...Costa, a fisherman who was unwillingly conscripted into the Franco army and decorated for an act of bravery he did not really perform. The village Republicans, who have neither forgiven nor forgotten the war, still subject Costa to a cold, polite but unrelenting boycott. When someone betrays a Republican agent sent from France, the village instantly, and without a hearing, condemns Costa...