Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal had not raised his finger in the election campaign, and in fact had embarrassed the President politically by his stand on Palestine. Forrestal plugged aggressively in Cabinet sessions for his policies, sometimes on subjects which the President didn't think concerned him. It was no secret that Harry Truman, while recognizing his ability as a Cabinet officer, would like to get rid of him in good time-perhaps after the military budget was settled...
...Truman was up, Pressed, and out on the street before the sun, and before breakfast. Trailed by Secret Service men, he strode 20 blocks to the Union Station, met Bess and Margaret on the 7:50 B. &O. train from Independence. It was the beginning of an up-before-the-sun, busy-every-minute, presidential week. The President seemed to enjoy...
Thus a Roman Catholic priest made contact with a station of the underground within Russia. For six months after World War II, "Father George" traveled through the U.S.S.R. with Red army credentials, studying resistance to the Communist regime and especially the secret confederacy of Christians. What he found makes an exciting book, written in collaboration with magazine-writer Gretta Palmer and published this week as God's Underground (Appleton-Century-Crofts...
...Russian resistance movement, says Father George, is made up of all sorts of men, among whom the Christians are highly respected. Said one of the leaders: "They are the bravest. They are the most cheerful. I wish I could share their secret...
...with room to spare. The picture begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor, he pulls off an ending that is adroit but fair, surprising but credible, and warm yet not sticky with sentiment...