Word: clues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of his work was correspondence and official documents. He did not dictate the replies; he merely brushed one or two ideographs in the margin of each-"Can do" or "Can't do"-which gave his secretaries the clue for the answer. Lunch was Western style when foreign guests were present, Chinese style for his countrymen. He was usually abed by 10 p.m. and he was sleeping soundly, he said. The only insomnia he could remember recently was last March, when the surprise election of General Li Tsung-jen to the vice presidency had made him somewhat sleepless...
...killed George Polk, and why? In the five months since the body of the CBS correspondent was found in Salonika Bay, thousands of Greek police and dozens of volunteer sleuths from the U.S. had tried to find out. They had plenty of theories, but only one substantial clue: the handwriting on the envelope in which Folk's identity card was returned to the police (TIME, July 5). This week, the clue paid...
...have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that its first announcement was a hoax to get even with...
Dean Lowe, who knew, wasn't saying. Said he: "If by inadvertence I let slip something which may conceivably give a clue to [the donor's] identity, I beg you most earnestly not to take advantage of it, but to restrain those detective instincts which tend to be stimulated in some of us by such a challenge to our ingenuity...
...winning, the contestant 1) must furnish "any money or thing of value," or have in his possession a sponsor's product; 2) must be listening to or seeing over television the show in question; 3) must answer correctly a question to which either the answer or a clue (including the question itself) has been given on a previous broadcast, or 4) must write a letter or answer the telephone when the contents of the letter or the conversation is to be broadcast...