Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Ezio Pinza, 58, matinee-idol basso of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway (South Pacific), and Hollywood, and second wife Doris Leak Pinza, 32, ex-dancer: their third child (his fourth), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gloria. Weight...
...Leak. "Through some way or other," Hanley told reporters, "copies of the letter have been circulated all over the state," and he wanted to explain it. "I have been in debt practically all my life. I assumed a staggering obligation years ago as a matter of honor." A bank, in which Hanley and his widowed mother owned stock, had failed, Hanley had taken on a debt of more than...
Cause to Sweat. The prime blame for the leak should have been put on Howard Handleman, International News Service bureau chief in Tokyo, who wrote the first dispatch announcing that fresh U.S. troops had arrived in Korea to the tune of two brass bands. Handleman's report violated a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official release from General Headquarters, ignored a GHQ ruling against revealing the arrival of new units until they were in action. After he filed, U.P. put out the story also. Said Handleman in self-justification : "I stand on what I file. If they...
...looked up and saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing. Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! . . . That little hole, if the water were allowed to trickle through, would soon be a large one, and a terrible inundation would be the result. Quick as a flash he saw his duty . . . His chubby little finger was thrust in almost before he knew it. The flowing was stopped! "Ah!" he thought, with a chuckle of boyish delight, "the angry waters must stay back now! Haarlem shall...
Complacency Y. Calumny. It was a matter, she told the attentive Senate, that went beyond partisan politics. The Democrats could be justly accused of "complacency to the threat of Communism here at home and the leak of vital secrets to Russia through key officials of the Democratic Administration." But, said Margaret Smith, "I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. In fact, I doubt if the Republican Party could...