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Tobruch looked to be an easier place to capture. Like Bardia, it was protected by a semicircle of forts, 16 clusters of six sunken casemates each, with another chain three to five miles outside the town within the outer ring. But Tobruch was thought to be undermanned and underequipped. Half...
Last week the New York Financial Writers held their annual dinner and show kidding Wall Street. Best gag: An underwriter, entertaining Jimmy Roosevelt at dinner, says, "Oh, yes, we have a small office down at 120 Broadway." Chimes in his wife: "Twelve floors. And if business gets better, they'...
In Chautauqua, N. Y., under the sedate ministrations of the Chautauqua Institution, U. S. culture has flourished at its most earnest, its most uplifting, for nearly 70 summers. One day last week, Chautauquans cocked quizzical ears at the Miller Tower,* whose chimes are best known for Sunday morning hymn tunes...
At 4:45 a.m., as the sun rose over dewy treetops, the chimes pealed out Nearer, My God, to Thee. The climax of the two-hour service: when diminutive Nancy Brown stepped to the lectern, peeped over and in a tremulous voice spoke to her readers for the first time...
Vittorio Emanuele III it was who signed that quaint, antique instrument, the Declaration of War, and for his pains was patted on the head by Messrs. Mussolini and Hitler. "I feel the urge," telegraphed .the Fiihrer from German G. H. Q., "to express my most heartfelt greetings to Your Majesty...