Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cliffwood, NJ. one day last week, FBI agents walked into the Ulster Chemicals Co. plant (four employees), there arrested the owner, Abraham Brothman, 36, and a blonde, comely colleague, Miriam Moskowitz. FBI officials identified the pair as two more links in the Soviet atomic spy chain which the U.S. started to unreel early this year after the arrest of the British atomic scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs...
...husband Louis (Malabar Farm) Bromfield. The contents of his pockets, she noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
...center of one broad lawn, standing like a nightmare clothes rack with triangular metal planes hung out to dry, was a quivering Mobile by U.S. Abstractionist Alexander Calder. Sprouting from the grass like a strange new species of mushroom were a pair of coldly obscure stone lumps by Englishman Henry Moore, who had laconically dubbed them Carving and Sculpture. Near by perched two glistening, seal-sleek shapes entitled Crown of Buds and Bad Fruit, by ex-Dadaist Jean Arp. "The most obscene works in the show," commented one visitor, "but nobody realizes...
Greeks wanted "Van Flit," as they call him, to remember their gratitude. During the days before his departure, gifts poured into his Grande Bretagne hotel room: rugs, trays, photographs, and a precious pair of cuff links (a gift from Queen Frederika). His harassed wife Helen sighed, "They spoil him so he is going to be impossible to live with." Van Fleet said he was proud to be leaving behind a tautly trained Greek army, "today the finest in this part of the world...
Consumers were doing little to help keep prices down; their growing rush to stock up on nylons, tires, sugar and anything else they felt like hoarding was creating shortages where none existed. In Kansas City, when department stores hiked the price of nylons from $1.35 to $2 a pair, the crush to buy grew even bigger. In Atlanta, Davison's department store sold as many television sets in two weeks as in three previous months...