Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone company, that in 1945 Costello asked him to check his telephone. Two or three times a week for about three months, he checked Costello's phone, and Costello handed him $50 or $100 when he saw him outside the Waldorf-Astoria barbershop. He had arranged a code with Costello. When Costello's line was tapped, "I would call him at his apartment and just say, 'This is Jim, everything isn't well,' or words to that effect." When it was not tapped, "I would say, 'Jim, I am feeling fine today...
Liberal folklore regarded Chinese Communists as humanitarians who would rather re-educate criminals than punish them. Reports of purges inside China under the new Red penal code have brushed away most vestiges of this belief. Shih Liang, Red China's woman Minister of Justice, in recent instructions to her courts finally laid it to rest...
...quarrels with a crusty old U.S. Senator for international rabble-rousing, she mocks him as naive. When he talks about settling down to a career as an art photographer, she urges him to devote himself instead to "getting ahead." Mollie lives by what Novelist Sykes bitingly calls "the Manhattan code." She fancies herself a political "progressive," but she really just has a power bug. And by keeping eternally busy at uplift, she provides herself with "an almost watertight bulkhead against melancholy...
Hans Lunding, a Danish political prisoner, had a cell next to Canaris at Flossenburg prison. One day Canaris was led away for questioning. When he returned, the admiral raised his heavily chained arms and in the international code tapped out on the wall: "Bridge of my nose broken. My time is up. Send love to my wife." Next morning Lunding heard an SS man bark: "Strip off all clothes." Canaris, stripped, was led out never to return. (To humiliate the high officers in the plot, the Nazis stripped them, strangled many slowly with piano wire...
This sort of league could not have the formal, loophole-riddled standards of the present sanity code. It would need only the one rule of amateurism, and an informal desire among the members to follow an amateur policy. How such a policy can be laid out, in terms of admission, scholarships, job opportunities, and alumni recruiting, will be discussed in tomorrow's editorial...