Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perle Mesta is the capital's No. 1 hostess, a position she had inherited, almost by default, from a long line of free-spending, haughty, and sometimes charming dowagers. Hostess Mesta had discovered a useful and economical secret: her kind of guests like to entertain each other. At Perle Mesta's parties, Harry Truman has played the piano, General Ike Eisenhower has sung Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (in a shaky baritone), Pat Hurley, without too much encouragement, has given his Comanche war whoop, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has whistled in a duet...
...Martha's elephantine passion was only fanned the brighter. She told him a secret too-she had always wanted to be a lady embalmer. Fascinated as a male spider about to be devoured by his mate, little Ray took her along on his larcenous travels...
...consolidate the Communist empire in the face of "Titoism." Perhaps Molotov and Mikoyan have been assigned to working out the political and economic arrangements under which the national Communist Parties can be made to work in harness. It was easy when only Russia had an army and a secret police; but now the party faces potential "Titoism" throughout eastern Europe and-especially-in China...
...secret session, the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) voted 118-to-11 last week in favor of the government's decision to join the Atlantic Pact discussions in Washington. The no votes were cast by the Storting's eleven Communists...
...Removal of secret government papers from a pumpkin on Chambers' farm...