Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his client went on trial for espionage in Washington last spring, lumpy little Archie Palmer had tried to save her with wild histrionics and indigestible tales of international romance in Manhattan's subways. Archie failed; Judy Coplon was convicted and sentenced to 40 months to ten years in...
Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan turned to embarrassed U.S. attorneys for an explanation; the attorneys turned to the FBI. It was true, the FBI admitted reluctantly, that it had done so, and was, in fact, still intercepting the mail of Judy's codefendant, a suspended Russian U.N. employee named Valentin...
The judge asked for transcripts of the wire-tapped talks. But it seemed the FBI had destroyed many of the records. The Government added hastily that the FBI had not gotten much from the wire taps, anyway; its case was based on other evidence. The Government's attorneys, plainly...
But Judge Ryan felt differently about it. He gave the Government until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that...
Joseph Stalin would be 70 years old this week, and all over the world his faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great...