Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furloughed to the U.S. after 20 months with the British Mediterranean Fleet, Correspondent Allen still carried grim memories of his lucky rescue, after 45 minutes in the water, from the torpedoed British Galatea (TIME, Dec. 29). He corrected first reports that he had been hospitalized afterwards in Alexandria-he had only gone to bed in a hotel. But he still suffers from severe headaches in consequence of shock and swallowing oil scum...
Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
Data on the comparative fighting abilities of Germans and Italians: > Axis prisoner arrivals in Egypt via Alexandria totaled 8,108 by mid-December (as against the 180,000 Italians captured in the first Libyan campaign). > Captured Italians from Libya and German fifth columnists from Iran were landed in Australia. For every eight Germans: one guard. For every 40 Italians: one guard...
...most-shot-at U.S. foreign correspondent was last week put out of action after a hazardous year and a half on the most adventurous assignment of the war. A.P.'s 34-year-old Maryland-born Laurence ("Larry") Edmund Allen was hospitalized in Alexandria, Egypt, a survivor of a torpedoed British cruiser in the Mediterranean...
Cabled Larry Allen from his hospital bed in Alexandria: "Jock Anderson was the bravest, most courageous newspaper correspondent I have ever known. ... I was with him when the Illustrious was attacked by German planes for seven hours. . . . Anderson emerged smiling...