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...dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor...
When Peter Rabbit squeezed under the forbidden gate into Mr. McGregor's garden he also wriggled forever into the lives of millions. Last week news reached the U.S. that Peter Rabbit's creator was dead. The end had come three days before Christmas to 77-year-old Mrs. William Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), wife of a British solicitor, mistress of Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Westmorland, England, artist and author of some of the best-known children's books ever published...
Some of the minor Potter characters-Samuel Whiskers, Mr. McGregor, Old Brown-are as famed among Potterites as her heroes and heroines. And many a Potter phrase has become traditional-e.g., Jemima Puddle-Duck's foolish first thoughts on meeting a dashing stranger (who of course turns out to be a fox): "Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome." Or the note left by the mice to explain why they had not finished the last buttonhole on the coat they made for the old tailor of Gloucester: "No more twist...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--The British First Army has recaptured Fort McGregor and "Tally-Ho Corner" in Northern Tunisia, driving the Axis garrisons into the hills, and has repelled German thrusts elsewhere on the north front with heavy losses, war reports said tonight...
...were taken yesterday after they had been in Axis possession less than 24 hours and a threat that the southwest sector of the British line at Bou Arada would be isolated was removed at least for the moment. Bon Arada is 20 miles south of Medjez-El-Bab. Fort McGregor and Tally-Ho Corner, a road junction, lies in between...