Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scriptwriter Henry Garson, who has been a TIME reader for the last 12 years, says that he wrote the episode "out of real experience. It happens all the time in my house. Whenever I want the current issue of TIME, I've got to rummage all over the place...
Even sad-eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal...
The vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles...
Nearly two hours later, after long haggling with heavily armed Chinese Communists over the signing of release papers, Mrs. Ward and 18 others of the American Mukden consular family (four, besides Ward, had been jailed by the Communists) were transferred from a sloshing tug to the Lakeland Victory this week...
Angus Ward puffed on a stubby little pipe as he told of living for a month on bread and hot water, two weeks of it in unheated solitary confinement at freezing temperatures. One afternoon, after this "hellish treatment," he was hauled before a Communist court, charged with and convicted of...