Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the messages appeared on the evening of the Dunster-Up mixer in Moors Hall, rather than on Valentine's Day itself, some of the recipients have postulated that their secret admirers reside in D-House. Others are sure it must have been a group of Harvard freshmen...
Another, from a ficticious George Metesky, whose initials appear on several of the love poems, read: "Maiden, thy beauty is like a fruit which is yet to mature, tense with an unyielding secret...
Donald Macleod entered Mr. Thorneycroft's employ in 1950 with exemplary references. But his secret gnawed at his conscience, and after two years Macleod went to his employer and confessed all. On the night of Nov. 4, 1950, Butler Macleod had left a window open in the Duchess of Sutherland's bedroom. While the duke and duchess dined, served by the impeccable Macleod, two friends of his climbed through the window, rifled milady's jewel boxes...
...improbable that Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov ever heard this cynical rhyme from the period when Australia was an English convict colony. But it might well have applied to the two Soviet citizens in 1954 when they left the service of the Russian secret police and were granted asylum in Australia. The story of the Petrovs-as they tell it themselves-is fascinating and informative on two counts. It gives a salutary refresher course in the feeding and breeding habits of the pestiferous swarm of Soviet agents at work outside Russia. And it gives a self-portrait of the "new" Soviet...
...Soviet government cleared up a major mystery yesterday by acknowledging that missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died at Soviet secret police headquarters in Moscow ten years ago. The Russian admission--with a belated expression of regret--came after 12 years of straight-faced Soviet denials of any knowledge of Wallenberg's fate. It cast blame for the cover-up on a former Stalin police official, now dead...