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...Elm. But Lonsdale, said the prosecution, was not a Canadian but a Russian. He soon found occasion to journey to Weymouth on Britain's southern coast, where he somehow made contact with Henry Houghton, 55. Ex-Navy Petty Officer Houghton was a clerical officer at the Royal Navy's heavily guarded underwater experimental station at nearby Portland. According to Houghton, Lonsdale identified himself as "Commander Alexander Johnson of the U.S. naval attache's office," and explained that the U.S. was anxious to know if U.S. information supplied to the British was being acted upon...
...wrong when Lonsdale asked him to obtain information and documents, even enlisted the help of his fiancee, Elizabeth Gee, 46, who also worked at the naval station. Between them they collected and photographed secret manuals (Particulars of War Vessels), Admiralty orders and charts. Nights they frequently relaxed at the Elm, where the pub's other patrons had come to know the generous and jovial Houghton as Harry. "One of our best customers," said the publican's wife. "We were amazed at his arrest...
...street, near Filene's, neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...
Deerfield, in western Massachusetts, is a quiet New England village undisturbed since the raids of the French and Indian War. Its elm-sheltered main street is lined with early American houses; at least one resident still drives a horse and gig. But Deerfield is not so serene as it looks: at all too brief intervals, a thunderous boom splits the air, several hundred ancient windows rattle in their frames, and sometimes one breaks...
...Yankee farmer, all but invented a cubist style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever was, and her unweathered face...