Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, there were plenty of Britons with Red stars in their eyes who were ready to gobble the bait the Reds were offering. The bait: exit permits for twelve British businessmen who have been trying to get out for three years; permission for five British banks and firms to replace their managers in China. The Communists made no mention of some 350 other British nationals still waiting for exit visas. Nevertheless, British businessmen seemed ready to overlook such trifles...
...Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Havoc and Victor Jory in Exit for Margo...
...picture is its failure to cut the gab at the end and leave the audience to make what it will of the situation. Instead, the last few scenes shift from one foot to another like guests who cannot bear to leave until they have hit on a clever exit line...
...daily-double payoff, and the man he owes is hot on his trail; 2) he can only honor the debt by selling his moldering ancestral mansion, Towcester Abbey, to an American millionairess who has qualms about its dampness; 3) his fiancee Jill misinterprets his 2 a.m. exit from the millionairess' room and promptly returns his ring. Trusty Jeeves settles these and a dozen other complications with his customary aplomb. Bill and Jill are put back on the cooing road to matrimony, and Jeeves finesses the American millionairess into crating Towcester Abbey, stone by stone, and rebuilding it in Southern...
...Vegas Sun (circ. 11,034). His fight with the Senator reached the boiling point in 1952 when McCarthy, speaking in Las Vegas, referred to Greenspun as a "confessed ex-Communist." At that Greenspun, who was in the audience, elbowed his way to the platform as McCarthy made for the exit. McCarthy later corrected himself: what he had meant to say was "ex-convict," for in 1950 Greenspun was convicted and fined $10,000 for violating the Neutrality Act by running arms to Israel. Ever since, Greenspun has gone after McCarthy with lurid charges in his paper, and McCarthy has paid...