Word: zamzam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cover since it first appeared. This issue is something. You hit the tops I think. Yes, I have heard about that exciting memo you sent to the staff, how you had to make waste paper out of the Emir and the wonderful follow-up of last week's Zamzam with this week's Robin Moor...
...Then the Germans sank the Egyptian Zamzam carrying 138 Americans, and torpedoed the U.S. ship Robin Moor-and relations were further strained when: 1. The Nazis threatened to continue sinking all ships carrying contraband to enemy ports...
...well he might have. For tucked away inside his little drugstore were four smuggled rolls of film. They were pictures taken aboard the Zamzam in the dawn of April 17 after the Nazi raider fired ten shells into her, pictures of the passengers abandoning ship, a picture of the raider (a commonplace looking merchantman refitted as an armed cruiser), pictures of the sinking Zamzam, pictures aboard the prison ship, pictures taken 33 days later as the prisoners caught sight of the Spanish and French coasts...
Aboard the German ship he sneaked the roll out of the camera, slipped it and two others into. Murphy's pajama pockets as the Zamzam passengers were lined up for registration and made to empty out their pockets. Murphy had burned his hands badly sliding down a rope, and Photographer Scherman asked whether he could sign for Murphy and remove his wallet and passport for him. The examining officer, a tall, smiling lieutenant who spoke perfect English, nodded. The films stayed in Murphy's pajama pockets -even while he was being interviewed by the raider captain...
Meanwhile, Photographer Scherman went on taking pictures without inter ference. Indeed, as the Nazis prepared to sink the Zamzam with time bombs, a Nazi lieutenant showed Scherman the best place to stand. Said he in precise English: "Sometimes they die quite gracefully and always they are different...