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...extending like a probing finger from Albania and Yugoslavia into the heart of Greece. In those crags Markos Vafiades can claim to rule. And his influence extends to any rocky slope throughout Greece where armed men may hide beyond the easy reach of troops not anxious to stage a manhunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...town, is unsuccessfully high-pressured but effectively soft-soaped into accepting the town's mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress of a particularly bigoted big shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...copy deadline is November 25. Publication will take place shortly after the University returns form its Christmas vacation, and an editorial manhunt by charged authors is to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors Pass Hat for Buried Lit Treasures | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...manhunt was on against at Soldiers Field yesterday, but this time Dick Harlow was looking for tackles, not fullbacks. Regular tackles Chet Pierce and Howie Houston are both on the medical list, at least temporarily. Whether they will be able to play Saturday will probably be decided by the doctors this afternoon...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Houston, Pierce on Injured List, Rodies Moves on Tackle | 10/22/1947 | See Source »

...security forces are permitted to pound off on a popular mass manhunt, the high level of government service cannot be maintained. Traditionally underpaid Civil Service employees will not be able to suffer their static promotion system when the F.B.I. also tells them what they must think. With every position in jeopardy, the Civil Service is faced with the possibility of an extensive Kultur purge that will substitute political wheelhorses for expert, but supposedly unfit officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Build a Better Broomstick | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

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