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...sand storm, beat a successful 100-mile retreat to el-Aghéila, southwest of Agedábia-closer to his own base and source of reinforcements. The storm was so bad that British mobile units could not keep up with him. Once again Rommel had shown smart generalship in coping with a superior enemy...
...armchair strategists might debate until their rockers broke about the subtle pros & cons of Sir Archibald's generalship in the Middle East last year: whether he was too cautious, or too slow, or too orthodox (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). But to the men and women, both in Britain and the U.S., to whom the war was more a worry than an avocation, Archie Wavell was still the best damn general on our side. MacArthur (TIME, Dec. 29, and see p. 19) was right up there, but he had his hands full. Unquestionably Wavell was the best choice...
Died. Harry Micajah Daugherty, 81, ex-U.S. Attorney General (1921-24); of heart disease; in Columbus, Ohio. In 1920 "President-maker" Daugherty maneuvered his longtime crony Warren Gamaliel Harding to the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian...
Originally recommended to allow small squads to nurse their strength, the new ruling may do just the opposite: make weak teams weaker, strong teams stronger. It will certainly encourage sideline generalship. In the Fordham-Southern Methodist game last week, there were 136 substitutions...
...Publisher Amon Carter. (He was called "the alltime, all-American Diesel engine of Texas reporting.") In Washington, D.C., as Star-Telegram bureau chief, Evans played shrewd poker and shrewder politics with such admiring pals as Jack Garner, Jesse Jones, Jim Farley (who rewarded him with a Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalship for helping swing the Garner delegates to Roosevelt in the 1932 convention...