Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol, England, Ada Ramsbotham took the occasion of her 104th birthday to reveal the secret of her longevity: "I never had a husband...
...Boss and the President on a tour of the battlefields on the next day. When she left the party was "just shifting into high gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...
...Before [Georgi] Dimitrov [of Bulgaria] stood up ... to make his courageous peroration [at the famed Reichstag fire trial], he knew of a secret arrangement between the GPU and the Gestapo that he would leave it a free...
...Casual mention of tobacco proved disastrous to Dalton last November. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he prematurely let slip a part of the top-secret budget by jovially remarking to a newsman friend: "You might pay a bit more for beer, but I'm not putting any more on tobacco." Next day he admitted his indiscretion and resigned under pressure...
...most essential duality in an artist? Says Matisse: "Hard work." That sounded as if Matisse slaved over his paintings, and he does, though they never show it. The best of them look as if they had taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives away the secret of that effect, letting the camera peer over his shoulder while he draws his grandson's portrait again & again and then paints a bit from a girl model. The secret: speed of execution (which need not imply hasty conception...