Word: go-between
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...GO-BETWEEN (311 pp.)-L P. Hartley-Knopf...
...Simple Tune. All month long, Leo acts as Ted's and Marian's go-between, carrying the messages which Marian says are business arrangements. Not even Marian's hardboiled, matchmaking mother guesses that the young boy may be the ruin of her snobbish plans. And when one day Leo glimpses a few lines in one of Marian's letters ("Darling, darling, darling, same time, same place, this evening"), and is struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could...
...necessarily jeopardizing his position as plenipotentiary ..." Said the weekly Potsdam Kirche: "Too many people are waiting for his services ..." Last week the Evangelical Church's Bishop Otto Dibelius announced that Grüber, though he would no longer be pastor of the Marienkirche, would continue his job of go-between. Said Heinrich Grüber as he went back to work: "I have no talent for politics. I entered into poli tics only to help...
...words of one of his friends, "can be called the high priest of militant U.S. anti-Communism." Last week the high priest became a key figure in the McCarthy v. the Army battle. The Army's Counselor John Adams testified that Columnist Sokolsky acted as a go-between who tried to make peace between McCarthy and the Army, and the terms were pretty much McCarthy's terms. Sokolsky, said Adams, proposed to him that if the Army gave Private G. David Schine some of the special treatment McCarthy and Roy Cohn wanted, then Sokolsky in return could assure...
...confessional scatterbursts, the old scoundrel tells all. Nosing out some little-known scandal about-some well-known man, Crome would disguise it thinly in two or three chapters of a projected second novel, submit it to the victim through a go-between, and cheerfully agree to suppress it for a price. After World War I, Blackmailer Crome ruefully relates, the British upper classes lost their manners as well as their money, and his brand of crime no longer paid...