Word: chad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anatomically speaking, Henry Fonda is well-situated in the co-featured "Chad Hanna." This circus tale by Harvardman Walter Edmonds '26 is in technicolor, with Linda Darnell's entire back and Dorothy Lamour's legs combining to give Henry a ninety-minute frustration. We feel for you Henry...
Their report, documented with an Italian mail pouch they had seized, gave such complete information that Sir Archibald decided to keep up a series of longdistance scouting sorties. All fall and winter three columns ranged across Libya, as far as Free French-held Chad, harrying isolated Italian garrisons, keeping tabs on Italian movements...
...secret rendezvous in the 10,000-foot volcanic mountains of southern Libya the British units had joined Free French forces pushing up from Chad, headed north to the outpost and airport of Murzuch. They dressed in the flowing coverings of the desert, and scattered Italian patrols they passed on the way took them for relief troops, unsuspectingly waved them the Fascist salute. When they reached the fort the Italian garrison was even less wary. Coming smartly to attention at the command of a British officer, they were all set to parade in review when ordered to surrender...
When the raiders struck again last week, the British were working with General Charles de Gaulle's forces once more. As before, a Free French column pressed up the ancient Faya-Tekro caravan route from Chad, swung out into the Libyan desert, where they were joined by the British. This time they even had planes to help them. They raced in over the Cufra oases, an important refueling centre for Italian transport planes supplying Italy's East African Armies, smashed the airfield and opened the way for a successful attack by mechanized ground troops...
About a month ago a small Free French force left the great swamp known as Lake Chad (see map, p. 23), heading north. They passed through nightmarish, weird, surrealistic terrain-along an enormous dry river bed, past sudden oval valleys with lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter...