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...Monty took a fling at an old U.S. pastime. "Your people have been showing me a new game with dice. They call it shooting craps. It's been a lot of fun. We've been shooting craps for matches in the air." Added the hero of El Alamein: "I've lost all my paper matches...
...election of national officers was a smashing victory for A.V.C. moderates, a resounding defeat for Communist-led delegates. Acting National Chairman Charles Bolte, who lost a leg fighting with the British Eighth Army at El Alamein, was re-elected to the top spot with only one dissenting vote, A.V.C.-Founder Gilbert Harrison as vice chairman. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., looming large in behind-the-scenes politicking, did not run for office...
...series of articles for London's Sunday Dispatch, the tall, shy, young Oxford-bred newspaperman who traveled and argued with Britain's Field Marshal from El Alamein to Germany, flatly denied Ingersoll's charge that Monty lost the battle of Caen while the British outnumbered the enemy. He dismissed the Ingersoll version of the battle of the Ardennes, "which represents Montgomery as panicking and screaming ... as putting the British Army into full retreat, as nearly losing the battle by abandoning the offensive . . . and finally as trying to scoop all the credit for himself...
...Detroit, when angry, isolationist groups of U.S. mothers had thrown eggs and tomatoes at him, Lord Halifax had replied: "Let them have a good time for their money." The Nazis had killed one of his three sons in Egypt; another had lost both legs in the battle of Alamein. The U.S. gradually came to respect, and almost to like, his stiff upper...
Foot in mouth. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein last week chose this defense for a necessary reduction of German food rations in the British zone to a near-starvation 1,000 calories a day: "Germans gave the inmates of Beisen only 800 calories." Short, spare Montgomery added: "Big, overgrown Germans have got to tighten their belts...