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...conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet orders; and a pair of personable American traitors, Peter and Helen Kroger, whose cozy home in a London suburb contained a radio that got its programming directly from Moscow...
Briskly acted and filmed, Treason telescopes the story to concentrate on the shambling, corruptible Houghton. He looses his charm on the navy's Miss Gee, a lonely spinster who sits next to a safe full of top secrets, dreaming about love, Monte Carlo and a yellow two-seater sportscar. Their romance, though, consists mainly of weekends in London, and the extent of their moral debauchery is going to a music hall to applaud the Crazy Gang. The film makers warn at the end that "there may be a spy in this very theater, in the very row where...
...sureness, her precision, and L'Equipe celebrated her "sweetness of manner, happy healthiness, and dazzling smile." Jean was busy talking about teaching school and joining the Peace Corps, and when people asked her why she skied so much faster than everybody else, she just smiled sweetly and said: "Gee, I don't know. Why don't you ask the others...
...Charlie Gee (pronounced as in gee whiz) had begun the embezzling in his bank in 1923, after another bank that he had set up in Hong Kong suddenly went broke. Because the news came to San Francisco by steamship, Charlie knew nothing of it for three weeks, continued to send some $80,000 in clients' deposits to the defunct bank-and down the drain...
Although her father died in 1956, Dolly Gee remained as committed to holding off his tiu lien in death as in life. But finally she could keep her secret within herself no longer. Soon to be retired after her 50th year in banking, she went to see Bank of America President Rudolph Peterson. "President Rudy," she said, "you are going to hear something that you won't like." Replied Peterson: "Whatever it is, Dolly, go ahead." Dolly did-and auditors are still trying to add up the cost. Best present estimate: around...