Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the night of May 13, 1953, a British revenue officer in Hong Kong, watching the midnight sailing of the Hong Kong-Macao ferry, spotted a man swimming in the dark water alongside the ferry's hull.
One was a Briton, 23 were Americans who had chosen to renounce their homeland and live on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. A band of U.S. newsmen silently watched the group dismount, chattering and joking with each other and looking-except for their faded blue P.W. uniforms-like...
From all points in East Germany, some 500,000 came to West Berlin last week for the second distribution of "Eisenhower packets" of free food. Lines formed early at 13 centers, beneath signs warning the people to keep mum about their identities and beware of informers. One twelve-year-old...
As a London chorus girl, she had wangled some bit parts in British movies, e.g., the cigarette girl in the opening scene of Alec Guinness' Lavender Hill Mob. Then a Paramount scout in London spotted her. One picture, called Monte Carlo Baby, called for location shots in Monaco'...
She got other small jobs-in movies, revues and nightclubs. A commercial photographer spotted her in one show and put her picture in every drugstore in Britain advertising the benefits of Lacto-Calamine. Meanwhile she went on with her ballet lessons and filled in her spare time studying dramatics under...