Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eaton strode forth to follow the route made famous 138 years later by British Field Marshal Montgomery. His army was a motley crew consisting of Hamet, some 90 of his Arab followers, seven U.S. marines under Lieut. Presley O'Bannon, 40-odd cutthroat Greeks and Italians recruited in Alexandria, an Italian "chief of engineers" (who had been by turns a Capuchin monk, an Indian dervish and a soldier of fortune) and a caravan of 190 camels at $11 a camel...
...doctor created a mild stir when he popped into Alexandria, Glengarry's biggest town, for the preliminaries. There he identified himself as a Montreal-born Irishman who had long served in the British Air Force, Army & Navy...
Married. Mary Hillard MacLeish, 21, schoolteacher daughter of Poet Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State and ex-Librarian of Congress; and Navy Ensign Karl Grimm, 22; in Alexandria...
...Greek Fleet, as the new Premier. In World War I, the Admiral was a stout supporter of the Allies, a follower of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos. In World War II he made his mark by breaking last year's leftist mutiny aboard Greek warships in Alexandria harbor. Then, as now, he had British forces behind him to help keep Greek from fighting Greek...
Doris Duke Cromwell, sent to Egypt last year by the United Seamen's Service to run a merchant seamen's canteen, turned up in Rome with excited accounts of her travels: after six weeks in Alexandria, she had flitted to Italy, thence to Sardinia, where she ran a U.S.A.A.F. canteen. Now in Rome, she was pulling wires -so gossips said-to get to England, where a mysterious romance waited. Offered a job by Hearst's I.N.S. Rome office as a war correspondent, Doris said yes. But the War Department firmly said...