Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hayhanen was recalled to the Soviet Union last winter, shortly afterward defected to the West. Through him last spring U.S. counter-intelligence got wind of Abel's activities. By that time, under the name of Emil Goldfus, Colonel Abel, the shy spy with the chameleon gift of protective coloration, had rented as headquarters a tiny, $35-a-month studio in a run-down brick building on Brooklyn's drab Fulton Street, within full view of the U.S. Attorney's office...
...Cyril Ritchard Theater, designed to give radio drama a chance for a comeback against heavy TV odds, kicked off with a tape of Richard (High Wind in Jamaica] Hughes's 1924 play Danger, the first radio play ever produced. Though it was a disappointing debut ("A number of those English accents are so phony, you know," explains Ritchard), the balance of the first week's plays bore out the host's claim to a "varied diet" of entertainment. "The show has no rigid format," says Ritchard, "for there is always an audience for anything provocative, intelligent...
True to its annual custom, the Miami News (circ. 149,269) put together its seasonal hurricane feature with the standard warnings about venturing into the wind, the usual list of provisions for the pantry, some familiar reminiscences of the big hurricane of 1926-and a two-page color map on which the reader could plot the course of the big blows. It was old stuff to the men in the city room; no one paid much attention. When the early printed Sunday magazine came off the press, Chief Photographer Ed Pierce looked at the map and, musing about his vacation...
...from them he and Gobbi hung backward over nothing while easing out from under the rock to reach the sheer green ice face above. There, with Ice Expert Gobbi leading, they climbed 2,000 ft. more, camped the second night on another inches-wide ledge in a freezing wind...
LOVE AMONG THE CANNIBALS, by Wright Morris (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), carries built-in advertising. At one point, the protagonist rhapsodizes: "Old lecher with a love on every wind, and you young ones too, running in pimpled packs after the teen-age bitch with her perfumed heat, and you, too, pretty matron, under the hair dryer, this is your book...