Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beautiful Bird. When Alger Hiss was ushered into another secret hearing last week, the committeemen led him carefully back over the same ground. He confirmed the arrangements of his apartment. He also remembered his old car, a 1929 model A Ford. To a question about his hobbies, he replied: tennis and ornithology...
...Hiss arrived in the suite's other room at 5:38. He was in a bitter mood. He had been forced to cancel a dinner date; he was furious because the discussion of a lie detector test (which Hiss later refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony. But I do not for a moment want to miss the opportunity of seeing Mr. Chambers...
Last week Dyaks were brought to Malaya again. This time they were hired to help wipe out the Communist guerrillas who have been terrorizing the country (TIME, Aug. 2). As three British Army trucks jolted them into a secret jungle camp, the first contingent of 49 Dyaks whooped a rousing greeting to their new hunting ground...
...twelve bank employees and four customers into a patio in the rear, while the gang leader and an aide went to the office of the bank's manager, Esteban Juncadella. He found him chatting with, of all people, a sub-inspector of the Bureau of Theft of the secret police...
Driver's Seat. Yearly sales of Loewy-designed products now exceed $1 billion. Loewy's own gross runs between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. His net, which he shares with five partners, including his good friend and ex-wife Virginia Thomson Loewy, is a secret, but Loewy manages to keep up two French chateaux, a Park Avenue apartment, a Long Island estate and a California desert hideaway. He likes to buy new limousines and restyle them to his own exacting taste...