Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article on African Negro sculpture [TIME, May 10] you refer to the "wholly abstract mask [see cut, left] used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe...
...along the presidential route, railroaders and secret service men checked every culvert and every bridge over which the 18-car presidential special would pass. Presidential Ghostwriters Clark Clifford and Sam Rosenman jotted down ideas for scores of impromptu back-platform talks, sketching in the drafts of the President's five major speeches (Chicago, Omaha, Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles...
With his mincing ways, his curls and his 88 fancy bathrobes, George is plainly a ring villain. His "secret weapon": bobby-pins (he calls them Georgie-pins) which he sometimes pulls from his golden hair and pretends to poke into his opponent's impervious thighs...
White-haired Georges Cogniot, editor in chief of L'Humanite (circ. 450,000), insists that "the press is now venal in a different way from before the war. It still gets money from [big business] trusts, publicity or the government's secret funds." But the charge can neither be proved nor disproved. The government allots newsprint, pegs its price, and subsidizes the news service A.F.P. (which could not exist otherwise), but expression is free...
Yell Leaders. Both the "papers of opinion" and the "papers of information" make the most of that freedom. "We are Latins," boasts stocky René Naegelen, publisher of Le Populaire. "Our press, on aime que fa gueule-we like it to yell!" The press makes no secret of its prejudices; the slogans of political parties and factions are emblazoned on mastheads. "To be informed," said an American newsman in Paris, "the Parisian must read at least five or six dailies. He must be more sophisticated and analytical than American readers. But after stripping opinions from the facts, he not only...