Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when we find men as dedicated as Adams, do we enjoy heckling them off their shaky roost? If they would compare the salaries and gift lists of Harlow Curtice, Henry Ford II, et al., it would make Adams' list look pretty trivial...
...dingy office in the Manchester Guardian's London bureau, rumpled, high-domed Victor Zorza grabbed a street map of Moscow, picked out the police stations nearest the German embassy. Minutes later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded to find himself talking to a British newspaper man who grilled him in perfect Russian. Moscow's cops chatted amiably but guardedly with Zorza -particularly after he confided piously that his capitalist boss might dock him for wasting a call. But from their very nonchalance, Zorza deduced that the police were...
...viewers, far less than a regular TV commercial. But there is hot debate over how many sales are actually created by the giveaways. Says Bell & Howell, which passes out $17,000 worth of movie projectors a year, mostly on This Is Your Life: "We like the idea, but we find it hard to determine how much we really...
...Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years ago who wrote 'The dawn is red,' he's now hailed as a true Communist progressive...
...years. The box also offered a mystery. It concerned a missing notebook dating from Thoreau's 23rd year (1840), in which the strongest love interest of the Concord bachelor's life was supposedly blighted. Discovered some time between 1909 and 1912, the "lost journal" did not find its way into the pine box (now part of the Pierpont Morgan Library) until 1956. Though it clarified nothing of Thoreau's love life, it did at least strengthen the claim that his precise, craftsmanlike hand had fashioned the box, for the 39 notebooks made a snugly perfect...