Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Named for Erastus Smith (1787-1838), who, although deaf, commanded the scouts in General Sam Houston's army. "Deaf" Smith swam the flooded Buffalo Bayou, captured a courier with dispatches for Santa Anna and, on the morning of the battle of San Jacinto, burned the only bridge on which the Mexicans could retreat...
...Unitarians, nevertheless, dispensed with his services. What happened to Field after that is uncertain. In 1948 ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that Noel Field had once headed a Communist "apparatus" in the State Department. Last month Hungary's ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was himself executed last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), said Field was a U.S. intelligence agent who had helped blackmail him into becoming "a servant of American imperialism...
...assignments, especially sob-sister stories, and became dissatisfied with her job and herself. At 24, Betty Lou felt that she had "run out of learning," because, married at 16, she had never gone beyond high school. Last month, Reporter Amster buttonholed Publisher Mark Ethridge (who also runs the Louisville Courier-Journal) and asked for help. Said she: "I don't want to be writing about kids, dogs and lollipops when...
...soon as the decision was made, a courier was sent to Secretary of State Acheson at the U.N. meeting in Flushing Meadows so that he would be informed in advance of the public announcement. The British, French and Canadians were also told; Britain decided to make a parallel statement from 10 Downing Street. By next morning, the arrangements were complete and the President's message was published to the Cabinet and the press...
...Communist Spy Courier Elizabeth Bentley got a job in Chicago's Mundelein College, teaching a familiar subject: political science...