Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sniff out Mussolini footage. Associate Producer Isaac (Ike) Kleinerman. who helped put together Victory at Sea at NBC, went to Rome last April. He found a trove of early footage in Italian archives, but government officials refused to let any of it out of the country. Instead, he dug valuable old clips out of French newsreel files. And, like the bluebird of happiness, the best footage he had seen in Rome turned up in copies back in Manhattan, where a search unearthed a Fascist documentary shot in the late '205 with a script by Benito Mussolini himself...
...have a mad ball in a neighboring village, and invite all the nurses -even though it's breaking the book for enlisted men and officers to "socialize."' But that dog Kovacs. a fellow with a suspicious nature and an investigative turn of mind, soon begins to sniff the wind. "They're up to something!" he mutters. "I can smell it! I can taste it!" Day after day his spies report-nothing. Day after day, in snap inspections, he finds-nothing...
...they offered a nose-wrinkling bit of news. Said Dr. Antonina Shubladze of Moscow's Institute of Virology: the Russians have an effective treatment for Asian influenza, to be taken like snuff. The nonprescription remedy costs one ruble (officially 25?) for a three-day supply, but only one sniff is needed if the flu victim takes it promptly the day he begins to ache and sniffle. Explained Dr. Shubladze: the influenza virus is inoculated into horses, which are later bled. Serum from their blood is dried and ground into a powder to make the antiflu snuff...
About the only visitors who have received a less than hearty welcome were Junketers Cohn & Schine, who showed up in 1953 on a tour for the late Senator McCarthy, to sniff the stacks for anti-Americanism. Politely, Director Dr. Ian Forbes Fraser explained that his library was private, showed the pair the door. On Fraser's shelves are volumes to turn any McCarthyite red. When the State Department nervously banned the fictional biography Citizen Tom Paine, by the then Redolent Howard Fast, from its overseas informational libraries, Fraser ordered six extra copies to handle the requests of curious Frenchmen...
Swaggering Newspaperman Richardson assiduously cultivated his sources, righteously used them to sniff out corruption, solve crimes, dredge up scandal. In 1924, after finding a missing friend for Hearst's famed Editorialist Arthur Brisbane, Star Reporter Richardson found himself, at 30, the Hearst chain's youngest city editor. Then he drank himself out of his first Hearst career in less than four years, spent the next four lurching from despised publicity jobs to outright handouts. Asked what he had done between 1932 and 1936, Richardson once rasped: "I was drunk...