Word: pumpkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tool. He handed secret documents over to the spy ring for copying, and when he was dealing with Whittaker Chambers, he wrote a fortnightly summary of the secret documents that passed over his desk. One of these summaries, in White's own handwriting, was among Chambers' famed pumpkin papers...
Elizabeth Bentley testified that White was part of an espionage ring headed by his friend and fellow Government official, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. Documents in White's handwriting were among Whittaker Chambers' "pumpkin papers...
...campaign. It contested 28 of the 120 seats in the National Assembly, all held by Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's boys. Then, precisely at midnight one day last week, the "political campaign" was declared at an end, and Portugal turned back into one man's pumpkin. "Silence! Silence!" said the final campaign headline in the opposition newspaper, Republica. "Portugal returns to her sad fate...
...chosen a piece of ironical whimsey for his script. A wiry youth with the agility of a Douglas Fairbanks and the garb of a Broadway bopster steals a 40 pound donation from the coffers of the local church. After a Keystone cops chase he hides the money under a pumpkin soon to be found by a woman who needs cash urgently to feed her hungry children. When the thief shrewdly steals the money back, the whole village of Alexandra pursues him until he seeks out a plausible hiding place--first for the money and then for himself. Since the film...
...Larch-mont's well-weathered Yachtsman Corny Shields (TIME, July 27), the boats were Quincy Adams Class sloops, measuring 17 ft. at the waterline. This year they were yachting's most carefully standardized boats: the Norway-built International Class sloops, whose 33-ft. specimens are alike as pumpkin seeds. In Larchmont's eight races, each crew sailed each of eight boats once...