Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow managed to sound almost abused in answering the announcement that Jacob Lomakin, Soviet consul general in New York, was being ejected by the U.S. It rejected the State Department's accusations on the grounds that they were "unfounded and contrary to fact." The Soviet note blandly explained: "Since Kasenkina is in a hospital virtually under prison conditions ... statements described to her cannot be considered as deserving any confidence...
...became surprisingly sociable. In private, he even unbent. Friends recall the time he read a note from Soviet Russia signed by one V. Urin. "Hmm," Hughes mused gravely, "he must be a member of the Privy Council...
Deep-Voiced Man. With that, the committeemen informed Hiss coldly that his testimony corroborated Chambers' in detail. How could he explain such point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...
...with his brother-in-law, Einer Frykberg. They left Frykberg's hardware store to his wife, drove Lecomte's taxi in as far as they could, and headed into the bush. Bartender John York hiked 15 miles in & out, then found that he had forgotten to note the numbers of his claim tags. He had to go through it all again...
...Limits. Texaco has hit a new, and somewhat cynical, note by delivering its commercial through a carnival pitchman who impartially plugs snake-oil cures and Texaco products. The commercial ends abruptly with the sound of a policeman's whistle and the pitchman's panicky flight from the stage...