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...both teams continued to maintain a to clear the pack from in front of Apprille cost them again Patterson knocked in his own rebound at 7:08, after receiving a drop pass from Bill Lamarche...
Scuppered Admiral. When World War II broke out, blonde, green-eyed Cynthia had been married for nine years to Arthur Pack, a colorless British diplomat who was nearly twice her age. The daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel, at 29 she was adventurous, astute, attractive and, from diligent years on Europe's diplomatic circuit, already an old hand at affairs of state. Leaving her husband, she returned to the U.S. shortly after the fall of France, immediately joined British Security Coordination (B.S.C.), the Manhattan-based intelligence and counterespionage network that was run by Sir William Stephenson, the famed...
Cynthia's first big assignment was enough to daunt the wiliest old pro: her orders were to get hold of the Italian naval code book. Within a few weeks of first meeting the shapely Betty Pack, Italy's naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, was so scuppered by her that he surrendered the code with hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March...
...working. One offered a soldier 1,000 piasters ($13.60) to set him free; the soldier gladly accepted the payoff, then tagged the captive with a white scarf identifying him as a probable Viet Cong. Shirts were stripped from backs to check for the guerrilla's telltale marks of pack straps. Forty-five minutes later, the helicopters were headed back to Saigon with a haul of 14 prisoners...
Died. Cynthia (real name: Elizabeth Pack Brousse), 53, World War II Mata Hari on the Allied side; of cancer; in Castelnau, France (see THE WORLD...