Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami and Chicago race-track operator, tagged by the Kefauver Committee as "an associate of Capone mobsters." Johnston unwillingly recalled that he had whistled up $135,000 for Warren's successful election campaign. Meanwhile, Warren reinstated Miami's Sheriff Sullivan, and his critics were back on the trail. Warren denied all their charges, stoutly affirmed that there is not the slightest connection between the governor's office and organized Florida crime...
Along with their permits, visitors to the government's fishing lodge get a chance to sample the famed "Trail Blazer Pancakes" turned out by David Ogilvy, 74, the lodge's gaunt, oracular manager. Last week, after "building pancakes by feel" for more than half a century, Dave Ogilvy set down in his own words his pancake "receipt...
Program: Any assignment that can't be completed in one phone call. Channels: The trail left by an interoffice memo. To Expedite: To confound confusion with commotion. Under Consideration: Never heard of it. Under Active Consideration: We're looking in the files for it. Coordinator: A guy who has a desk between two expediters. Modification Policy: A complete reversal which nobody admits. A Survey Is Being Made of This: We need more time to think of an answer. Note and Initial: Let's spread the responsibility for this. Point Up the Issue: Expand one page...
British newspapers were also hot on the trail. To check some tales about Burgess' private life, London's Daily Express dispatched its Hollywood reporter to Friend Christopher Isherwood, novelist (Prater Violet) and onetime parlor pink. "Was he a Communist?" mused Isherwood. "Well, like the rest of us, he was very much in favor of the United Front and Red Spain and so forth ... It meant, don't you see, that we were pretty favorable towards Russia ... I mean, it went without saying. But as far as I know, Guy was never a card-carrying party member...
...well-informed source" said that the pair crossed the Pyrenees from Spain into France last week, traveling under assumed names; tourists said they saw them hurrying into Italy from Switzerland by way of the Simplon Pass; some amateur sleuths were sure the two had doubled back on their own trail, were back in Britain and hiding. When a daughter was born to Mrs. MacLean last week and her husband failed to give any sign, police all but abandoned hope that he and Burgess were still in Western Europe. Their guess: the two were either dead or behind the Iron Curtain...