Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Everyone seemed to like the P.M. Said a waiter who served him: "I've seen 25 Belgian premiers come & go in the last 25 years, and I was curious to see from close by what a permanent premier looks like." He thought he had fathomed the secret of Mr. King's success: "He knows perfectly when to laugh, and especially not to laugh while others are laughing...
...more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist-dominated Czech Cabinet meekly handed three of them over to the Polish secret police. Of the four Polish refugees still held by the Czechs, one was Baginski, the last of the famous...
...secret, either, that the two coaches-Army's Red Blaik and Notre Dame's Frank Leahy-weren't exactly cronies. When asked about it, Leahy said: "I have no animosity toward Blaik ... I don't know the man. . . ." A couple of cold, windy days later they posed for a wintry-faced picture...
...open secret was out. As everyone knew he would (TIME, Sept. 1), Big Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...