Breaking the Code

What I did between wars

The author during the filming of Carnival of Safety, 1958

I had always been secretive about my Army experience. It was for the best reason of all: it was indeed a secret. The work I was trained to do required it: it is now so obsolete that it is almost risible, but at the time, the late 1950s, and the years that followed, I was sworn not to reveal anything about it. It became a habit, actually, and, as far as I remember, I never talked about it to…