Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only two of the witnesses admitted that they knew dark-haired Elizabeth Bentley, the self-confessed Communist spy. (But none admitted knowing that she was a spy.) Many of the people named by Miss Bentley-either as co-spies or as purveyors of confidential Government information-admitted that they knew each other. Three also said that they had been visitors at a small, red brick house in suburban Chevy Chase...
That was the home of Russian-born Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, described by Miss Bentley as the kingpin of one Communist spy ring. There, Miss Bentley had testified, Mrs. Silvermaster and William Ludwig Ullman, an Air Forces major who lived with the Silvermasters, had photographed documents and other data which Miss Bentley carried to her Russian employers. Silvermaster had denied that he was a spy, but he refused to answer other pertinent questions on the ground that he might incriminate himself...
...Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One friend of Currie's who was no economist was Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained at his house on one occasion. He made no effort to draw me out. The conversation was on cultural...
...working with his mother's cook, whom he kept after Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1941 . . . Some of my time was spent mediating between Mrs. Nesbitt and Mary, the cook, who had her own kitchen on the top floor of the White House. When I was away, Miss Thompson took over the job of mediating. One of my daughters-in-law used to worry a great deal about White House food, which she did not consider very good, and as I had never been able to pretend that I knew anything about food, I had to be very...
...When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...