Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, The Iron Curtain, fades out on a pastoral scene: Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who tipped off the Mounties, strolls down a country lane with his wife to safety. Eighteen months ago, when Gouzenko did just that, he said: "I consider myself a Canadian...
Palmiro Togliatti was back. Three months after his attempted assassination (TIME, July 26), he still looked pale; his voice no longer seemed to carry the old, metallic ring. When Togliatti appeared at a Communist rally in Rome last week, a plump countrywoman wiped her eyes. "Poor dear," she said. "He must still be ill, he's not his old self...
...picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney, Jerry Giesler, drove into a tree, suffered broken ribs and "profound shock." Meanwhile, Variety noted that the latest Mitchum movie, RKO's Rachel...
Would you believe it, we bought the ring. His desperation to get his money and then to best it out of Rome fast had convinced us that we were getting bargains and saving his hide, in one swell foop. But this you won't believe. Right away, pausing one more minute before leaving Rome, he offered in another ring, and we bought it for three dollars, an uncounted handful of lire, and Mosse's ball-point pen. Now we both had gold rings . . . but did you see those Columbia passes? How could we expect to break up those passes when...
...back to the gold rings--after a few minutes, they got dull. We polished them for half-an-hour, and they regained their shiny luster, but the one thing the customs officer didn't question me about in New York was my declaration of one brass ring, value two dollars...