Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unions. "Today there is not much chance for us," admitted a Communist central committeeman in Rome last week. Then he added: "All we are doing is preparing for tomorrow." And the best hope for a Red tomorrow still lay in the plight of Italy's ill-paid, ill-fed, ill-housed masses...
When Editor Louis Seltzer fed Staffer Frank Stewart a fancy lunch one day in 1938 and then "promoted" him to church editor of the Cleveland Press, Stewart felt like a fattened turkey under the ax. To Stewart, who had been night editor, sports editor and state editor of the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 282,000), the promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then...
...inconspicuousness that made Foote just the man for the Russians. When British Communists recommended him for a dangerous "assignment" on the Continent, he jumped at the chance, entered the Red army intelligence six months before the fall of Madrid. He became a cog in an espionage network that Fed information directly into Red army headquarters in Moscow. Except for an interval in a Swiss jail, he worked for the Russians until 1947. But long before that time Foote's disillusionment...
Back to the Hills. It did not take Sancton long to get fed up with "the rush, the noise and the grime" of city life. After a wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought...
...daily 400-word syndicated column in more than 50 newspapers. He is getting ready to parlay his television winnings into a TV producing company, a TV school and, for tours of U.S. theaters, Milton Berle Television Units. In the long haul, he wants to produce and direct. Well fed at last, the great want still hungers for new conquests...