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...Axis anchor of this line was on the plain of Catania, some three miles south of that stoutly defended port. There, for ten days, Germans of the agile Hermann Göring (armored) Division had held the British, waging battles which were still scantily reported in the U.S. press last week. One explanation of this temporary German success probably lay in an Allied communiqué of July 16: "The speed of the advance is very satisfactory, but transport and supporting weapons are of necessity limited during the present stages...
...sound of machine guns was like an urgent tapping at a door. "Those ain't ours," said a soldier. "Sounds like Hermans," said another voice, referring to the fast-firing guns of the Hermann Göring Division. Vaguely alarmed, we crested the slope and looked out into a narrow alley of plain, hugged by hills-high ones to the left, low gentle slopes to the right. Dead ahead another hill blocked the end of the valley...
...bombed it. The Italians confessed that its fall was near. General Montgomery's eyes must have glinted as he remembered the interview he had given. Once Catania was his, the battle for Sicily could be little more than a battle for more coastland, then for Messina, if the Hermann Görings survived in enough strength to fight for that port. In Messina, Monty could look across three miles of water into Italy itself...
Globe-trotting Swedish Tycoon Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren went into economic and diplomatic eclipse 18 months ago when the U.S. and Britain black-listed him and his fabulous array of world enterprises (TIME, June 29, 1942). Last week, on an hacienda outside Mexico City, Hermann Göring's onetime friend was busy with earthy new interests. He was experimenting with the breeding and raising of hogs, poultry, sheep and dairy cattle-still with a pale blue, acquisitive eye on postwar opportunities. True to Wenner-Gren tradition, he bought not one hacienda but a half dozen...
Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck...