Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were busier than any other agencies, and quite properly, in the investigation and prosecution of Communist agents. It was the Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General...
...Patrick of 96 Sayles Avenue, Pascoag, R. I.; Burrillville High, Harrisville, R. I. McFee. Arthur Storer of 93 Pine Street, Portland, Me.; Deering High, Portland. McMurtrie, Richard Lempereur of Bellevue Place, Gorham, N. H.; Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Mass. Mello, Robert Charles of 32-43 32nd Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; Phillips Exter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Nebel, Harry Thomas of 129 Jamaica Avenue, West View, Pa.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass...
...petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine music and archery. Macready, even with his handsome quiver of arrows, is no match for Raft...
Once more their patience has been rewarded-but not so amusingly this time. Christopher Morley's new novel, The Man Who Made Friends With Himself, is a long epigram-studded footnote on the life of Richard Tolman, a literary agent who commutes and ruminates between his Long Island home and his Manhattan office. His story is a memoir found after his death...
Richard ended his Long Island vacation by returning to New York and Zoe. On their way to meet his neighbors, the Cullens, for dinner at the Grillparzer, they stopped at Richard's office to open That Man's manuscript-only to find that it contained a stack of blank paper with a seven-word title. Zoe was worried when Richard murmured, "So all my life is blank pages," but they went...