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Whether or not tweed-coated civilians can maintain the same concentration required of G.I. students in the intensive teaching program is being widely debated, but Harvard is taking the experimental plunge...
Married. Warrant Officer George Ray Tweed, 43, Navy radioman who played Robinson Crusoe for two and a half years as a fugitive on Jap-held Guam; and Dolores Kramer, 29. War Department employe; she for the first time, he for the second (he filed suit for divorce from his first wife nine days after his return); in Washington...
...best of them could never appreciate the importance of secrecy in their ordinary talk. Yet, hauled before the Japs, they held their tongues despite unspeakable tortures. Some had hoses shoved down their gullets till the water pressure swelled them like balloons. A girl, Tonie, who had brought supplies to Tweed, was beaten with telephone wire, eviscerated with a bayonet...
...Never Give Up." Sick and discouraged at such sacrifices, Tweed was about to surrender (to certain death, as he learned later) when a native schoolteacher, married to an American, dissuaded him. "Never give up," she said, "no matter what happens. . . . The people of Guam feel that as long as you hold out the Americans will come back. If you surrender, they will believe you have lost your faith and think the Japs have...
...Tweed held out. One by one, the other Americans were caught and beheaded or shot. His days of electric-lit caves and radios were over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start...