Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the airy-fairy Cairo censor permitted this dispatch on the fire-power question: "Although the Germans' losses have been heavy, many of their surviving machines are the huge but highly mobile Mark III and Mark IV tanks. The British have tanks that will halt these giants, but it is not always possible to have them in the right place at the right time. Despite the fine showing of light American-built tanks against the German heavyweights, it is obvious that when huge machines face only light ones or infantry the advantage must lie with the heavy machines...
...place in Rome. Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, glamor boy extraordinary, was marrying Belgian Princess Marie-Jose. Standing in the Pauline Chapel of the royal palace during the ceremony was another glamor boy, a little gloomy, but slightly angelic with the light catching his golden hair. He was Leopold III, Crown Prince of the Belgians, already married three years to Swedish Princess Astrid...
...been blown to glory, according to Britain's Surgeon Rear Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor. It went the way of all flesh when London's Royal College of Surgeons (and its Hunterian Collection) was bombed. Also gone: the tract of "one of the lady friends of Richard III...
Marriage Revealed. King Leopold III of the Belgians; and Marie-Lelia Baels, daughter of an ex-member of Belgium's Cabinet; near Brussels...
Because a lot of other people, including Marshall Field III, want in a different sense to work on the Tribune, a rival Chicago paper is about to be launched. But when Marshall Field begins working on the Tribune, the Tribune's towering Colonel Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick will begin working on the Field paper. That will be the zero hour for a clash between two great Chicago fortunes, one originally made in Chicago's dominant department store and the other made in Chicago's dominant newspaper...