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...quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What were the colors of Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase cast her spell over thousands of Smith girls by her uninhibited showmanship, once astounded her doctor by babbling off the dates of all the Roman Emperors while coming out of the ether after a tonsillectomy. Mistress of the masterly...
...irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they said, of a French artist and an Arabian princess in the shadow of the Sphinx, and was possessed of such combustible Circe charms that her contract forbade her to ride public conveyances or go out without a veil. Her public...
...Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...
...seventh month after its creation, restless NATO, through CPUBINFO (Chief of Public Information), named 80 sub-agencies and offices to be officially designated by top secret anagrams-their initials. By last week the number had increased to 125. Most everybody knew SACEUR (pronounced "Sack your" meaning the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, i.e., Dwight Eisenhower). They could guess at EB (the Executive Bureau of the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Council), but who could explain that SUSREP-NADPB meant Senior U.S. Representative North Atlantic Defense Production Board, or that CINCNELM meant Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic...
...peace proposal was a quickly juggled anagram of all the old ones. The Russians continue to insist on a toothless international inspection program-i.e., Russia wants to do its own inspection of its armament-and on the abolition of atomic weapons before a large-scale reduction of conventional armaments. (The Russians, who control the world's biggest armies, want to impose an arbitrary one-third reduction on the troops of all the Big Five powers.) Sniffed Dean Acheson: "This takes us back...