Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word." Somehow, the story remained a secret in Washington for three days. Then the cat was let out of the bag -while Harry Truman was campaigning, in upstate New York. He returned to Washington in time to meet Marshall, debarking from the "Presidential Special." The President turned away reporters with a gay wave. Didn't he have something to say about the Vinson affair? He grinned: "Not a word...
...secret, Nadelman was developing a new form of sculpture. His final works, rescued from the obscurity of his Riverdale attic, were the hits of last week's show. Made mostly in plaster or papier-mâché (a mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman...
...eliminate waste motion (e.g., it has tilted tables down which workpieces slide from one worker to another without having to be carried). By such production-boosting devices she expects to step up her gross next year to $14 million (her net is Nellie's own secret...
...rayon process, called Sanforset, was developed by Cluett, Peabody; the wool process, still unnamed, was licensed from its British developers, Stevensons Ltd. and Woolsey Ltd., and treats the wool with a "secret" chemical...
...Never Leave Me! The secret of father Sitwell's impressiveness was not so much that he was very rich but that he never so much as recognized such enfeebling concepts as self-doubt and humility. He had well-founded doubts, however, of his children's self-reliance. "It is dangerous for you," he often informed Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith, "to lose touch with me for a single day." Like many Victorians, he invested his maddest behavior with an aura of impeccable sanity...