Word: couriered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also met two of the men who are now his right and left hands at the Met: Artistic Administrator Max Rudolf, 48, and General Assistant John Gutman, 48, who in the old days used to drop into the Darmstadt theater as music critic for the Berlin Börsen-Courier. Rudolf, then a conductor, recalls Bing and wife Nina as "a handsome couple," Bing himself as "a man I liked to talk to." Says another German critic who knew him well at Darmstadt: "He was clearly destined to have a great future...
...review board sent him back to his $10,330-a-year job. The New Yorker ran a 24-column article about his ordeal. Meanwhile, Remington sued for $100,000 and got an out-of-court settlement from the network and sponsor of a television program on which onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley had affirmed her accusations-that he was a member of the party, and that he had given her confidential information for transmission to Moscow...
...Presence. Her testimony gave the Government its first corroboration of Elizabeth Bentley's most serious charge-that Remington had delivered U.S. secrets to Courier Bentley for transmission to Russia during World War II. The biggest secret, his ex-wife said, was a formula for making explosives out of garbage. She later conceded that it might have been a formula, as Miss Bentley had testified, for making synthetic rubber...
...held party cards, had paid dues only irregularly. But she stuck stoutly to her story that she had frequently been along, as driver of the car, when Elizabeth Bentley and Remington met in Washington. On such occasions, she testified, she parked in various quiet spots, heard her husband and Courier Bentley discuss Government documents, and saw Remington hand them over for dispatch to Moscow...
...echo of a 1918 statement that has become a part of Marine Corps legend. Moving up to Belleau Wood at the head of a company of marines, Captain Lloyd Williams was overtaken by a courier, told that the order of the French area commander was to retreat. "Retreat, hell," snapped Captain Williams, "we just got here," and took his troops into battle...