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Among devotees of espionage, World War I is memorable for its many women agents. Not the best, but the most glamorous female spy was Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning), who claimed to be a half-caste Javanese temple dancer, but who was in fact the daughter of a solid, middle-class Dutch family. Mata Hari, for ten years France's most famed courtesan, was recruited into German intelligence as Agent H. 21 . She managed to send information out of wartime Paris through smitten neutral diplomats. In 1917, when a French military court confronted her with evidence that...
Besides romance, Never Wave at a WAC offers some wacky comedy. The society girl is assigned as a guinea pig to rigorous tests of arctic uniforms supervised by her ex-husband. The not-too-bright stripteaser, who wants to be a Mata Hari, finally gets a job as a chauffeur for intelligence...
...Full name and title: Preah Bat Samdach Preah Norodom Sihanouk Varman Reach Hari-vong Uphato Sucheat Visothipong Akamohaboras Rat Nikarodom Mohareacheathireach Baromaneat Baromabopit Preah Chau Anachak Kampuchea...
...conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...
There was little critical comment from the press yesterday. One notable exception: Red Smith of the New York Herald Tribune, who said that "Harvard has abandoned hari-kiri as an athletic policy...