Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
...short story about a daydreaming timid-soul, is Danny Kaye's funniest movie. Henpecked half out of his senses by his mother (Fay Bainter) and threatened with worse by a sinister fiancee (Ann Rutherford) and prospective mother-in-law (Florence Bates), the celluloid Mitty (Kaye) deserves a Secret Life if ever a man did. He has several, all derived from the ferocious pulps he is paid to proofread...
...mystery fans will remember Helen Maclnnes as an author who put feminine curves on international espionage. In Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, she created a creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...
...Skill. Radioisotopes are ticklish things to handle; tiny specks of some of them can kill. Only skilled scientists can handle these new tools with safety. Such skill is spreading rapidly, and as it spreads, the U.S. is acquiring scientific know-how-which is far more valuable than the perishable "secret" of the Bomb...
...been going on in the stock of Chicago's Butler Bros., world's largest wholesaler of general merchandise. As the market in Butler edged up last year, LaSalle Street was full of rumors about who was trying to buy Butler's stock. Last week the secret was out: the buyers were the potent Du Ponts of Delaware, and assorted relatives...