Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gold Tipped. In London, ambitious thieves raided the Tower of London, traditional repository of Britain's crown jewels, found none (their whereabouts is still a Government secret), took the guards' supply of cigarets...
...Editor Emile Gauvreau for printing off-the-record information that Charnay had promised not to use. The boss rang for a guard and Charnay, still protesting, was hauled away. But in losing his job, he won a reputation on the main stem as a man who could keep a secret. Charnay once posed as a murderer's attorney to get an interview in a cell at the Tombs, hid in a French actress' stateroom closet to get an exclusive story on her "life with Mussolini...
...SECRET MISSIONS (433 pp.)-Ellis M. Zacharias-Putnam...
...Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, U.S.N. (rtd.) is a man with several missions, none of them much of a secret any more. One is to put the story of his professional career in what strikes him as the proper public light (despite his specialized knowledge of the Japanese language and Japanese navy, Annapolis-trained Ellis Zacharias remained a captain during World War II, reached flag rank only at his recent retirement). The others are: 1) to plead the case for broader and better U.S. naval intelligence; 2) to blast away at U.S. naval stupidity; 3) to make sure that nobody...
...Secret Missions is sure to set the blue-water admirals aboil, and may even raise the temperature, with doubtless wholesome results, in O.N.I.'s offices (once described by the late Colonel John W. Thomason Jr., U.S.M.C., as "a haven for the ignorant and well-connected")-If at times brash, energetic Author Zacharias seems on the verge of confessing that he is the only U.S. Navy officer who knew what World War II was about, his general complaints about barnacled gold-braid thinking are all too probably justified. Whatever naval pundits may make of his claims and conclusions, lay readers...