Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the home of Russian-born Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, described by Miss Bentley as the kingpin of one Communist spy ring. There, Miss Bentley had testified, Mrs. Silvermaster and William Ludwig Ullman, an Air Forces major who lived with the Silvermasters, had photographed documents and other data which Miss Bentley carried to her Russian employers. Silvermaster had denied that he was a spy, but he refused to answer other pertinent questions on the ground that he might incriminate himself...
...Bulldog. But his fears got the better of him. The bank's alarm began to ring just as he left; before he had driven a mile, he felt that he was being surrounded. He turned off into a side street. It came to a dead end. He stopped the car, got out, leaped over a fence and started across lots, carrying the canvas moneybag. A bulldog-a creaky, cross 13-year-old dog named Buggs-ran out toward him, growling. Fox lost his head completely. He kicked viciously at the dog's head. Then he ran in panic...
...Good Spot." How did the spy ring operate? Elizabeth Bentley detailed her furtive meetings with a young bureaucrat named William W. Remington. In 1942, she said, Remington was "in a good spot" with the War Production Board, where "he was dealing with aircraft production figures." (Until six weeks ago, when he was suspended, Remington was chairman of a Department of Commerce committee which collated secret information from many Government offices, including the Atomic Energy Commission. His committee's job: to determine what materials and goods should and should not be exported to Russia...
...Lesnevich still seemed to have his future before him. World's light heavyweight champion, he was also a likely contender for Joe Louis's heavyweight crown. Old Gus, who has knocked 58 opponents galley-west in 75 fights, climbed into the ring at London's White City Stadium last week to meet Britain's clumsy, shaggy-haired Freddie Mills. For nine rounds they hardly touched each other. The referee warned them repeatedly: "Now, boys, this is a championship match. Let's have some action...
...Louis insisted that he was through with fighting. Billy Conn, who retired from the ring after his second fight with Joe, was thinking of changing his mind. In Texas, he phoned a promoter-friend that he would go back to Pittsburgh in about a month to begin intensive training...