Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scripter Kent added, wistfully: "When I think of that big, listening ear out there, I think how wonderful it would be if some writer could find a formula for giving women the substance and not the shadow of life...
Broadway stirred last week in the first chill of autumn and looked around for the start of a new season. It was hard to find. At the end of a muggy summer, only 15 shows still ran in its 30 playhouses (half as many as were running in London), and all of September promised only one new arrival. Symptomatically, it was not even the product of a Broadway rehearsal stage, but Los Angeles' long-running revue, Ken Murray's Blackouts...
...last week, General Electric's big, genial President Charles E. Wilson returned to his office to find 50 red roses in a basket beside his desk. "My favorite flower," he murmured, thumbing through them for a card. When he found one, from a Chicago bank, he was obviously touched. "Why," said Wilson, "they aren't even customers of ours...
...instructors, he got a new name. For his tools of trade he also got forged identification papers, a supply of Reichsmarks, ration stamps, sandwiches, a revolver, compass and a cyanide tablet. His assignment: to travel 400 kilometers in a broad, jagged semicircle behind the enemy's lines, find where two "missing" German divisions were stationed and make his way back to the Americans...
Each of the agents met his crisis in his own way. Happy's fate was sealed when the pursuit forced him off the highways and into the headquarters of one of the divisions he had come to Germany to find; too many people got a good look at him, and remembered his face later...