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Stacia Zzyzzle (pronounced Ze-zy-zel) foiled the attempt. Stacia, who lives at 11 Phillips St. "with my husband," can be reached at CA 7-5719. "we just moved here from Waterbury, Conn.," she said last night, "and we don't quite understand what all this furor about the last listing in the book is about...
Stella Zysyz, pronounced "Ze-Zy-zes," has been listed under that name since 1913 and is fourth from last in the current directory. She is real, a Lithuanian, and lives at 9 Newton St. in Cambridge...
...warning its customers not to kiss in public ("If you can't kiss someone in a sidewalk cafe, where can you kiss her?"), and explained why French speak such tortured English (they use an English-made-easy guide, which offers such phonetic help as: "Pliize sho me ze boukigne off-ice for leug-guedge"). Occasionally he also picks up off-beat business news, like his report on Trans World Airlines' Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "When I first became chairman ... I picked up a card in one of the offices which read: 'Directions for making a Martini...
...Little Corporal. This week the Christian Socialists stepped back for a Liberal try at the royal question. Leopold's younger brother, the Regent Prince Charles, asked the Liberals' Albert Devèze to form a government. Short, sprightly, a politician to the tips of his grey mustache, Devèze has been a Deputy Premier and Defense Minister since August 1949. Dubbed "le petit caporal" because he likes to prance on horseback in uniform, the new Premier-designate was said to be hopeful of a three-party agreement to recall Leopold on condition that the King abdicate immediately...
Crown Prince Baudouin. What made Devèze believe the stubborn factions were ready for harmony? "That's my secret," chirped the little corporal, then added brightly: "Have pity on the pianist...