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...coastal end, but farther south, near the Hill of Evil Men, Montgomery's 51st Highlanders streaked across the moonlit, wreck-strewn desert. What was left of Rommel's artillery tried to hold them back. The British infantry swept on. Dazed and shell-shocked Germans surrendered, turned and ran, or died in the sand beside their 88-mm. guns. Rommel's dam had burst...
East of this no man's land, headed in the general direction of the Chianti bottle, a squad of British sappers dragged themselves across the sand, pulling the string of German land mines. Behind them the 51st Highlanders squatted in slit trenches, awaiting the signal to advance another 50 yards. To the rear, British 25-pounders roared, spewing their shells across the line into the darker, hostile horizon...
Manhattan's Madison Avenue & 51st Street, another surrealist exhibition was" last week attracting crowds. Organized by Pioneer Surrealist Andre Breton for the benefit of French prisoners of war, it also had a striking installation: a cat's cradle consisting of miles of string woven all through one exhibition room. As an added attraction a number of schoolboys were employed to play catch with footballs over the labyrinth...
...socialite, a grass widow, and the Iowa harnessmaker's son, a widower, got on famously. A few nights later they were dining together at a little restaurant on East 51st Street. They talked again about war work; they also began talking about themselves. They went together to see Katharine Cornell play Candida, to a party at the W. Averell Harrimans. By the time they were invited to a quiet dinner given by Lord and Lady Halifax for the departing Winston Churchill, they had decided to be married. The engagement was one of the secrets Winston Churchill -first person...
Dean Spaulding spoke to more than 1,000 New England school executives and teachers assembled in Cambridge for the two-day session of the 51st annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association...