Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first countries in the world to recognize Red China. By last week the Times of Indonesia was demanding the expulsion of Red China's Ambassador Huang Chen. Radio Peking had its own pat explanation of what had gone wrong: "Some time ago, the U.S. sent a special agent pretending to be a scientist to Indonesia to fan up an anti-China campaign . . ." But the truth was that if Mao and Chen Yi and Ambassador Huang were themselves U.S. secret agents, they could hardly have done a better job of arousing neutralist Indonesia against Red China...
...street," Curtis explained last week, "may be millions of years old, but you can't sell them as art." Undaunted, the Folio family consulted one Charles di Renzo, owner of an electrical-supply store in nearby Rosemead, who made a deal to act as the Folios' "agent." Di Renzo and his brother Jay called in Amadore Porcella, an enthusiastic authenticator described as a Vatican art expert. Porcella ticked seven of them off as a Caravaggio, a Lotto, a Tintoretto, and some assorted smaller fry. (In Rome last week he denied that he had identified the other three...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...
North by Northwest. Adman Gary Grant tangles unwittingly with Spy Ringleader James Mason, succumbs to Double Agent Eva Marie Saint, winds up the hero of this thoroughly entertaining Hitchcock-and-bull story...
...someone to share the cost of a subscription, burst into his proctor's room. The proctor immediately summoned the Yard policemen, who after questioning the boys called Cambridge police. The orphans were taken away to jail at about 6:15 Saturday, but were almost immediately bailed out by an agent of the subscription company, who maintained that all the magazines purchased will be delivered...