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...Zzz . . . Zip!" Sensing an intimate glimpse into luxury-liner indiscretion, the British press tried to give an answer, leaped wildly on the story. Where facts failed, imagination soared. Headlined the Daily Express: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE. PASSENGERS SAW THE LADY'S DRESS GO ZZZ ... ZIP! The woman whose fastener broke on a recent transatlantic run-and whose dress nearly slipped off-was attractive Mrs. Susan Silverstone, thirtyish, of Manhattan, who was promptly dubbed "Black-Eyed Susan." Passengers confirmed the incident, but it was not until farther down in the story that readers discovered where Captain...
...such courier is my friend George, a Greek boy, who told me Crete's story. I will not even try to describe him for fear of giving him away to the Nazis. Intelligent and educated, George carried good news, orders, communiqués and bulletins from XXX to ZZZ. "We need arms," George tells me in his jerky, nervous way. "We need much more now if we are going to be useful in sabotage." George speaks solemnly of the great number of Cretans who were shot out-of-hand as hostages. "The Germans always pick professors, doctors and lawyers...
...criticism and defense, pro and con have come from professors, from busi- ness men, from free-lance writers in Greenwich Village or Stuyvesant Square whose closest connection with a college has been a Row ZZZ seat at the Yale-Maryland game in 1922. The undergraduate press, on its mettle, has oiled its cylinders and turned out bales of stuff. But in most cases a single college, or colleges as a whole, has had to take punishment from individuals whose position made it possible for them to lift up their voice and be sure that it would be heard...