Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last weekend a plainclothesman sighted Crazy Pete and René drinking with a girl in a Montmartre bistro. René saw the detective edging toward a phone, and suspected the lady friend of betraying him. He shot at her across the table and missed. While bystanders helped the cop subdue René, Pierrot made another escape, out the front door...
...depression he had sold apples on a Manhattan street corner. Later he returned to the U.S. as his country's ambassador. Now he plans to see bankers as well as doctors, sound them out for some new loans to get his administration started. Another possibility: persuading his friend Nelson Rockefeller to start a development corporation in Ecuador like his Basic Economy Corporation in Venezuela...
...distant echo of the unfulfilled prophecy of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr. King's longtime leader and friend: "The 19th Century was the century of the U.S.; the 20th Century will be the century of Canada...
...door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
Harper's was the first magazine to buy stories by Mark Twain and Sherwood Anderson; today, less literary than its friendly rival, the Atlantic, it is also more concerned with contemporary history. Allen frequently consults his good friend, the Atlantic's Editor Ted Weeks. Each regards his magazine as one of culture's last bastions against engulfing tides of vulgarity and mass thinking. Harper's, Allen says, is a forum for the "unorganized, unrecognized, unorthodox and unterrified," though it is rarely as bold as all that...