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...Nathan to smuggle gold to Wellington's troops trapped in Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, he shipped the gold straight to France, where Brother Jakob slipped it through the Pyrenees. Nathan found out about Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo before anyone else in Britain, thanks to a courier who sped a Dutch newspaper to him. He used the news to make a killing on the London stock market, where he customarily leaned in stoic solitude against a post that became known as "the Rothschild pillar...
...dozen top Reds between 1948 and 1951; following surgery for an abdominal tumor; in New Haven, Conn. A frumpy New Englander who studied socialism at Vassar ('30), Elizabeth Bentley joined :he Communist Party in 1935 when she fell in love with Soviet Spy Jacob Golos, became an underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with information that implicated Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry Dexter White (he was never indicted) and helped convict WPB Aide William Remington...
Defending Alabama's Wallace, in fact, was something that only the Charleston News & Courier seemed anxious to do. The true villains, that paper said, were the Alabama officials who were "trying to integrate the public schools under court order despite the efforts of Governor George Wallace to close them rather than mix." For the News & Courier, which boasts an editorial policy based on the argument that Lincoln never really meant to emancipate the slaves, even that comment was remarkably restrained...
Died. Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, 65, chairman of London's Hambros Bank Ltd., largest commercial bank in Europe, organizer of a 1941 parachute raid on laboratories carrying out Nazi nuclear experiments in Norway, wartime courier of secrets between British and American atomic scientists developing the atom bomb, and head of British underground operations in occupied Europe, for which he was knighted; following a hemorrhage; in London...
...long-distance call from New York to Louisville connected two old friends: Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, 73, owner of Long Island's Newsday, and Mark F. Ethridge, 67, who recently retired after a long career as editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal. "I need you out here, Mark," said Guggenheim. Said Ethridge: "I'll do everything I can." He flew East, thinking he knew exactly what Harry wanted: a friend's guidance during the difficult period of adjustment following the death of his wife, Alicia Patterson, Newsday's creator and editor (TIME, July...