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...University members of the Committee are Arthur E. Sutherland L '25, professor of Law, Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, and William M. Pinkerton, Director of the University News Office, a Nieman Follow...
...beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand her a map). Placed under house arrest. Rebel Rose managed to continue her espionage by such devices...
Fire & Rebellion. Author Horan is ,a somewhat heavy-handed writer whose researches almost always lead him to fascinating material. Previous books (on Jesse James, the Pinkerton detective agency) dealt with surefire subjects; but Tom Hines remains a shadowy figure right to the end of Confederate Agent. Nonetheless, it becomes apparent that he must have been a devil of a fellow, always hunted, sometimes caught, never held for keeps. He was only 23 when the Confederate government sent him to Canada with apparently unlimited funds. There he met with the top U.S. Copperheads, formed a "squadron" of Confederate saboteurs, and went...
...Pinkerton, U.S.N., is Major Lloyd Gruver, Air Force jet ace; his Butterfly. Hana-ogi, a dancer. Gruver and Hana-ogi love and lose each other at the color line. With many an audible aside, Author Michener labors the worthy moral of their story: U.S. color snobbery will unfailingly lose friends and alienate people in the Far East...
Discount houses will soon find detectives checking up on their activities. The W. A. Shaeffer Pen Co. has hired three agencies (Burns, Pinkerton, Willmark) to find out how discount men get hold of Shaeffer pens (some $125,000 worth in 1953) to sell below Fair Trade minimums...