Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, though he continued to live like a little shot in a lower-middle-brow home in McLean, Va., he began to act more & more like a big operator and a man who knows the right people. As a result, the Senate's special investigations subcommittee called him in to ask him if he was causing the republic any harm...
Maragon was closeted with members of the subcommittee three times. What had the Senators asked him? Maragon was evasive-happy but evasive. The whole thing, he implied, was simply a formality, one of those things a man who knows the right people must endure. The committee was then asked for comment. The Senators, ahum, were not talking either. At week's end Mysterious John Maragon seemed to be just as mysterious as ever...
...midnight Boykin's guests had drunk, eaten and spoken their fill. Boykin happily picked up the tab-about $16,000 -and shook his big head in wonderment. "Think of it, by God," he thundered. "Over a billion people represented right here in one hall. I doubt if there's ever been anything like...
...daughter Heddy, he felt that he had found a haven at last. World War II had made him a wanderer; his wife had died of hardship, his mother had died in a concentration camp and his sister had disappeared. Afterward, Tito's government had refused him the right to go home to Yugoslavia...
...from the late John Dillinger, got a plastic surgeon to remodel his face to keep the cops off his trail. He came boldly back to his old haunts-and ended up in jail. He had neglected to have a tattoo reading "True Love to Mother" removed from his right...