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Once, at least, OWI has been glad to fall back on deliberate double talk. That was when a bewildered Australian asked what double talk was. OWI dug up a fluent Bronx taxicab driver named Elmer Zittenfeld. Elmer explained that he was about to show the English how to wriggle out of losing a political argument. Said he: "Well, the way I see it is this. If President Roosevelt refuses to greetscong the mendefresh on lend-lease, the Treasury Department will be forced to reconstram all war bonds issued since the 18th of frammish. On the other hand, if you analyze...
...John Zittenfeld, father of the Zitten-feld Twins, 17, who tried to swim the English Channel two years ago, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for 15 months for obtaining money on forged discount bills. He said that most of the money, more than $58,000, had been used in educating his daughters, financing their swims...
...bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name...
...miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again the same way, right now," said Bernice Zittenfeld, talking for herself and her sister, Phyllis...
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