Mythical President Conant Kidnapped From Limousine

You never can tell when a stray Jap will be driving around the Yard at three in the morning, so it was perfectly understandable when the Navy guard stopped a car touring past the dorms at that unseamanly hour. He accosted the man: "Halt. Who goes there?"

"President Conant's chauffeur," the driver answered. "I'm driving him to work". It wasn't of course, but that's what he said. The officer didn't believe him, and looked into the back of the car. He intimated that he didn't believe the driver, that no President was in evidence.

The culprit looked stunned, shouted, "Good lord, he's gone!" The Navy man let him pass. Reminds you of the story of the guard on PBH steps, who stopped an entering civilian student, with the statement that Brooks House was Navy property. When he found out, he was perfectly affable about it all.