Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurrying through Washington's Union Station, she looked like any Government stenographer, eagerly on her way to a New York City weekend. Hatless and smartly turned out in a sporty belted coat, she carried a small valise. But Judith Coplon was no ordinary working girl. At 27, she had risen to a job which was listed by the civil service as political analyst, foreign agents registration section, Department of Justice...
...retired toy merchant, was paralyzed. Samuel Coplon used to be known as the "Santa Claus of the Adirondacks": he gave away thousands of toys to country kids at Christmas. One night last week, the Coplons waited in vain for Judith. For when Judith arrived at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, she did not go straight home. On her devious journey, she was followed by agents of the FBI. Judith had become suspect of dealing with agents of the U.S.S.R...
...expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance and unreasonable fear," since the disease is not highly infectious. Stainback did not say what would happen to the patients if the colony is abolished. Best guess was that they would be sent to the Kalihi receiving station on the island of Oahu, held until doctors found out whether it would be safe to release them. While he was on the subject, Hawaii's governor asked that the name "leprosy" be taken out of the statute books, replaced by "Hansen's disease...
...Paramount's television interests will be split up. The Chicago station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...
...cars, two Scotches before dinner), Marquand is by no means contemptuous of money and is mightily pleased that he has made the financial grade. But like Charley Gray, he knows that something is missing. He wishes there were something more at the finish than an annuity and a new station wagon. And he is no more sure than Charley Gray what that something is. Says Marquand: "I've been so warped and conditioned by life that I haven't found anything that will satisfy...