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North of these ports was the Arno River and the German "Gothic" line, largely backed by the Appenines. The weak point was Rimini, in flat land on the Adriatic. If the Allies broke through at Rimini, they could fan out into the Emilian plain, flank the entire line. That would end the Germans in Italy...
Allied strafing and bombing planes were in the Arno River valley, behind which the Germans have been building the "Gothic Line" (see map). Its outposts were reportedly at Pisa, Florence, and Rimini. However, Allied sources revealed that an additional defense in depth had been constructed farther north-from Marina di Carrara, some 30 miles above Pisa, eastward to a point 18 miles above Florence...
...Philip Whitcomb cabled that air raids so far have not perceptibly shaken German morale and may have stiffened it. Warned Whitcomb: "Germany is working at top speed on the construction of a new Europe, with endless international commissions, conferences, trade agreements, institutes." Added the Christian Science Monitor's Arno Dosch-Fleurot: "Newpapers in 17 languages support a 'New Socialist Europe' under Nazi leadership...
...assets besides his liquid eyes. The Duke of Alba is his cousin, Columbus was his reputed ancestor. He is the husband of Powers Model Wilma Baard, barge captain's full-fashioned daughter who was launched in society in 1938 by such sponsors as Lucius Beebe and Cartoonist Peter Arno. According to the FBI, she never knew that the count was 1) unsuccessfully delving into U.S. war production, 2) unsuccessfully trying to feel out Congressmen on U.S. foreign policy. Bail of $7,500 soon gave him his chance to tell her all about...
...names in the wry gallery of U.S. satiric artists are Thurber, Arno, Bemelmans. By last week the name of Ensign Saul Steinberg, U.S.N.R., was added to the list...