Word: cassino
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Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
...Rommel Calls Cairo Monty won at El Alamein, even though the Afrika Korps knew his battle plan; the wicked Gestapo had branded it a plant. In The Green Devils of Monte Cassino the Germans held the abbey five months against heavy Allied attacks because their parachutists needed that time to bring its art treasures to the safety of the Vatican. In U-47, dashing Submariner Günther Prien plunks his torpedoes into the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, but when his deck officer shouts "Hurrah!", whispers: "Shut up; 2,000 men have just died aboard that ship...
...that Novelist Moravia has drawn his straight from life. After Mussolini's return to power in 1943 as a Nazi puppet, Moravia, who had been editing an anti-Fascist magazine, hid out for nine months "in a pigsty on top of a mountain'' near Monte Cassino. For chapters on end, readers of Two Women may feel that they are doing the same...
...mature young British Columbian lawyer, who had served in the Royal Canadian army for five years, was weary of the din, and reflective, and not quite ready to go back to his law practice. So Captain John J. Conway, a company commander at the heroic Battle of Monte Cassino and winner of the Military Cross, left the colorful regimental kilts of the Seaforth Highlanders and came to Harvard to study history...
...battle may well be remembered longer for the Allied destruction of the historic monastery (founded A.D. 529) that crowned Monte Cassino than for the men who fought and died there. Author Majdalany concedes that there were probably no German troops within the monastery precincts, and that militarily the buildings were nearly as strong in ruins as they were intact, could serve equally well as an observation post. But he still feels that the bombing had to be done, if only because "in the cold desolation of winter and the fatiguing travail of unresolved battle, the spell of its monstrous eminence...