Navy's Girl Guyed

After two weeks of deep-blue silence and dress-white evasion had failed to keep the wretched matter quiet, the U.S. Naval Academy brass harrumphed and admitted that the story in the Baltimore News-Post was "substantially correct." Gist: a bouncy, 17-year-old high school girl named Susan Johnson had arrayed herself in a midshipman's uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment, and three midshipman officers who knew of the plot were broken to the ranks (the academy first said the demotions were merely for "administrative reasons"). Second upshot: Dr. Marius Johnson grounded his high-sailing daughter Susy.

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