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Cogny next joined the underground: he led raids against Italian outposts and spied for the Free French. But Cogny was trapped by a Gestapo decoy less than a year later, and he was out of the war for good. The Gestapo beat him "rudely," as he put it, on seven different occasions ("I succeeded in not talking"); they condemned him to death and finally shipped him off to Buchenwald. While many of his brother-officers were making their names in North Africa, Italy and the Vosges, Cogny was slaving in German road gangs, his head shaven, his weight down from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Delta General | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...sudden," said Lamar, "I noticed that the ice had sawed the boat in two. The water was aflyin' . . . but we made it back to the blind. We stayed there three or four hours. Finally some old duck came in by mistake. Smith grabbed a gun . . . and hit a decoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: The Duck Hunter | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Newsmen charged that to throw them off the trail prison officials sent a closed van through the prison gate as a decoy. Then, under cover of darkness, they slipped May out. Not until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: GONE | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...King held Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid both at fault in the Battle for Leyte Gulf-Halsey for letting himself be drawn off base by a Japanese decoy force, Kinkaid for not making dawn air searches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Crustacean | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Eddie Molloy, despite a soaking wet ball, completed 11 out of 18 tosses. Ed Woodsum, six foot two inch end, while not outstandingly ast, is an incredibly clever who didn't drop a pass all afternoon. By the end of the first period Molloy was using Woodsum as a decoy and passing to halfback Frank Smith, who also onto the ball with amazing determination...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/18/1952 | See Source »

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