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From many sources came reports of Italy in upheaval. Bern and Stockholm told of peace riots in Bologna, Milan and Rome, of clashes between Italians and German soldiery. The Fascist Blackshirt militia, posted on the northern frontier, it was said, had been replaced by Badoglio's police; bad blood brewed between the factions; Italy might yet be plunged into civil...
...Allies move into southern Europe, no part of Germany need be spared. North Italian airdromes, bombed last week, may soon be bases for the bombing of Germany. Already R.A.F. Lancasters are shuttling from Britain to North Africa and back (they bombed Friedrichshafen in southern Germany last month, Bologna and Leghorn in northern Italy last week). From north & south, Allied air power is mounting...
...distinction was as a middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...
...York, beef stocks were 35% of normal, may be exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...
...commander, says Clausewitz, must guess whether, after receiving the initial blows, the core of the opponent's Army is gradually becoming condensed, tempered and strengthened, or, to the contrary, beginning to crumble into dust like a decanter made of Bologna glass whose stir-face has been cracked. The commander must figure out with precision how much the enemy state will be weakened by the loss of certain sources of supply and by the disconnection of certain arteries. He must foretell without mistake whether the enemy will collapse in pain from the wounds inflicted on him, or hurl himself forward...