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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Zzyz, Wigg,' Lozez Race for Lazt Lizting in New Bozton Phone Book | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Zzyz, Wigg,' Lozez Race for Lazt Lizting in New Bozton Phone Book | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: American in Paris | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: From Palace to Tram Top | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: From Palace to Tram Top | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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