Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey was half forgotten as the full magnitude of the Anglo-American victory in Egypt was revealed. So 800,000 Dewey covers followed the Australian to the old paper mill; and we ordered a new set of covers on double time-picturing Admiral Harwood, the British Naval Commander at Alexandria...
...desert just east of Matrûh with one Italian general and 80 Italian officers pleading to be taken to a prisoners' camp. "The best thing I can suggest," one colonel said, "is for you to proceed to the Fuka railway station and take the train to Alexandria." They did. In another area German lorry drivers piled their trucks full of Italians and, without escort, drove them up the coast road to British rear bases...
...Germans had a fixed and deeply fortified front. Before and between their positions they had planted many thousands of land mines, barely covered by the sand, in wait for British tanks, artillery, trucks and troops. On the Eighth Army's side of the line, between the Germans and Alexandria, the British also had permanent fortifications and mines. Patrols from each side constantly wormed into the mine fields, cautiously uncovered the buried boxes of T.N.T., neutralized them with a twist of a screw and threw them aside. But there were always many more...
...that the men on the ground would have to win or lose. Correspondents were allowed to report only that the Eighth Army was strong-infinitely stronger than it was when it broke at Tobruk last June, and only weariness kept the Germans' goth Light Infantry from marching into Alexandria. The dispatches were more precise about Rommel's known ground strength: two German tank divisions, two Italian tank divisions, two German infantry divisions (one motorized), about six depleted Italian infantry divisions. Rommel met the first attack with one German and two Italian divisions, held the rest in reserve...
...Divorced. Actress Katharine Hepburn, 33; by Broker Ogden Ludlow of Alexandria, Va.; in Hartford, Conn. Throughout their six-year marriage, ended by Miss Hepburn in a Mexican divorce in 1934, Ludlow stayed so far in the background that he was something of a mystery man. Main known fact: Miss Hepburn got him to revise his name down to Ogden Ludlow from Ludlow Ogden Smith. Concluding, after eight years, that the Mexican divorce might not be legal, Ludlow got another last week to make sure...