Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house in the Roxbury section of Boston; some kids had come upon him wandering about the street, and had taken him home. One of the cops looked over the child in the tattered dresses and rumbled: "What's your name, little girl?" Piped the child: "I'm not a little girl. I'm a boy." His name, he said, was Gerald. Later, from clues he gave them, they found his mother, Mrs. Anna Sullivan, 45, in her third-floor apartment over on Terry Street...
...cost only $1. She sent her 20-year-old son to get the radio back. But John, an easy mark for a fast sales talk, came home with a new radio, for which he had agreed to pay in $1.25 weekly installments. The radio-shop owner, chubby A. M. Pearson, got Mrs. Phillips to sign the contract...
Further assurance that the U.S. was in an unhappy way came from Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet consul general in New York, who was invited by the U.S. to go home last August after Oksana Kasenkina jumped from his consulate window. Now chief of the Soviet Foreign Office press section, Lomakin turned up for Foreign Minister Vishinsky's first official reception last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets...
...lvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments, Arévalo exulted: "I don't have to paddle, I'm going downstream...
Leaving for the island of Stromboli to make a film with Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman was puzzled when an interviewer asked what the picture would cost. Between $300,000 and $500,000, she thought, but "I'm poor on numbers. I always forget a zero or add a zero where it counts most...