Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than two weeks after Cairo had reported his promotion from captain, Major Elliott Roosevelt turned up in the White House. Columned Mother Eleanor: "I walked into the White House from the hairdresser's a few minutes ago and noticed a group of bags in the Lincoln room. My curiosity got the better of me and I looked farther. Lo and behold, there was our son Elliott and a civilian friend who had come with him from Africa." She reported further that he had "picked up some sort of germ" and was probably "in for a spell...
...able, taciturn Brigadier General Russell Maxwell and a small staff quietly disappeared into Egypt six months ago, the public knew that they were off to establish the U.S. Military North African Mission. Since then, while uniforms of his growing staff have become a common sight on the streets of Cairo, there have been only such shreds of news as Maxwell's promotion. Says the new Major General: "I like to talk about work done, not work . . . being done...
Davis, feeling that the sale of the bagpipes "will mean another drink in Cairo" when he travels to Africa this June to serve as an ambulance driver," ended a successful period of ownership that started when he ordered them for the Yale game rally only to receive them an hour too late to participate...
When Mustafa El Nahas Pasha became Premier in February, he asked Aly Maher Pasha to keep to his estate, "The Green Castle," near Alexandria. Aly Maher Pasha soon turned up in the Parliament lobbies in Cairo. Inside Parliament he was immune from arrest, but when he left the building one day last week the police nabbed...
...Cairo, Singapore and Australia, the citation said, "were remarkable for their ac curacy and their courage." After giving the audience (on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria) a little col or on the sinking of the Repulse -the orange-bright explosions of Jap torpedo planes above the calm blue China Sea - greying Cecil Brown remarked: "I think it ... brings more grey hairs to your head to resist the pressures ... of offi cials. . . ." The award to Brown reflected rightful honor on U.S. radio newshawking abroad, which reached its peak in 1941. Other awards showed an equal sense...