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That Syria was a rather jumboesque campaign was hardly General Jumbo Wilson's fault. He had to tread warily lest he inflame Arab sensibilities or drive Vichy further into the arms of the Axis. The Allies' hope that large-scale deserticras and native uprisings would quickly crack General Dentz's defense did not materialize. They had not reckoned that his seasoned regulars would fight no matter who gave the orders. On the British and Free French they had inflicted nearly 1,500 casualties...
Miss Rand's chief concern seemed to be lest any of the Freshmen had been shocked by her stories. "Yes, there was a double entendre," she admitted. "Of course, I don't know anything about sex except what I read...
...adults the effect was powerful; on the less mature it was staggering. Said one young spectator for publication: "It was all good. I can't remember." Lest the Big Show be beautified out of its hallowed form, in other acts Trainer Alfred Court presides over snarling panthers and lions who pose, with noble indifference, among dogs and bears, including the bruin who apparently gets ecstatically drunk on a bottle of beer. Elly Ardelty, netless, stands on her pretty blonde head on a trapeze at the very top of the circus heavens. Massimilliano Truzzi juggles knives, flaming torches...
...last time she was heard on a Network program, her voice was so alluring that an anonymous admire felt urged to telephone the studio and pronounce her his "dreamgirl." But the idealistic Lochinvar insisted that he did not want a date with her, lest it spoil the illusion...
Whether Count Teleki had committed suicide in despair-perhaps even to arouse his people-because he believed Hungary was about to be completely engulfed by Hitler, or whether he had been killed by the Gestapo lest he initiate an anti-Axis coup d'état like that which took place in Belgrade last fortnight, he died because his policy was fatal. The "tightrope Premier," who had tried to serve Hungary's interests by cooperating with Germany, was not able to make...