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...given up their best positions for the defense of Naples. Fifth Army troops turned westward from Salerno, occupied the lower coast and the heights of the Sorrento peninsula overlooking the port and its bay. Twelve miles off, midway between the troops and Naples, Vesuvius loomed. Other troops already held Capri, the storied island just off the peninsula, the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples, Ponza and Ventotene northwest...
Still uncaptured last week was the Isle of Capri, in Naples Bay, with a possible prize of doubtful value-Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, former Nazi War Minister and Wehrmacht Chief who mar ried his secretary. He retired to Capri when Hitler took control of the armed forces...
...past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...CRAZY HUNTER - Kay Boyle - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The setting of these three short novels - with one excur sion to Capri - is nonbelligerent England. Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence. Another, The Bridegroom's Body, draws sinister parallels between human emotional patterns on an English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life...
...societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization, he deleted the sentence. One moonlight night on the Isle of Capri, a U. S. woman artist invited him to dinner, proposed marriage. By producing pictures of two nephews, claiming them as his sons, Bachelor Westermarck escaped...