Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage." At Columbia, Oscar got good grades in his law courses, played first base (he was too light for football) and then-fatefully-wrote some varsity shows. His favorite contained a fat part for himself: a comic French waiter called Dubonnet (acting is still one of Hammerstein's secret ambitions). Slowly, he began to dream of the theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they had offered me $20, I would have forgotten all about the stage. But they didn't. So I went to my Uncle Arthur...
That old Sleeping Beauty, the Communist International,* came back to life last week. At a secret meeting "somewhere in Poland," delegates from nine European Communist Parties met to reorganize "the general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques...
Rocky had in fact never made a secret of his imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth. He said darkly: "There were a lot of other fighters in there you'd know...
...Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye and some elegantly kidded daydreams (TIME...
Shirer's book is at its best when it quotes from captured diaries and secret memoranda. It is poorest when he fills it with infuriatingly personal and flat comments on yesterday's news ("Second thoughts on Potsdam : It is a milestone in history"). He writes much as he broadcasted,* with a strong accent on emotion. Even the most devoted admirers of the late President Roosevelt will find a long entry on F.D.R.'s death a bit on the sticky side...