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Rumors began to fly. Rundstedt was ill. He was well but under house arrest. He had sent his trusted aide, Lieut. Colonel von Harbour, to Lisbon to deal with Allied diplomats. The SS had caught and shot Harbour. Rundstedt had lost all hope of winning the war, had made contact with General von Seydlitz and Moscow's League of German Officers. But rumors about Rundstedt were nothing...
...late Albert H. Phillips of Eastbourne, England, but got no part of his estimated $76,000 cash bequests. Instead, "as a tribute of respect for their outstanding qualities of leadership," each was willed a watercolor painting by obscure 19th-Century Artist John Callow (for Roosevelt: New York Harbour; for Churchill: Fishing Boat...
...tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...
...Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
...made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...