Word: methuens
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...dullards and windbags, with his sharpened, precisely aimed verses. Periodically, during the 200 years since his lifetime, the reading public has rediscovered Pope. To mark the bicentennial of his death, a new five-volume set of his works has been projected (Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope-Methuen & Co., Ltd., London). Some of Pope's packed and pointed lines seem apt as ever in the autumn...
When World War II came, Musician John Rossi of Methuen, Mass, was ready. In 1917 he had watched the boys march away; he had two small children and an obligation to stay home. But when the Massachusetts National Guard was called to Federal service this time, Rossi had 18 years of training behind him and was inducted as a technical sergeant. His children were grown and he was thrice a grandfather...
...week's end Rommel's battered columns were backing & filling short of Tobruk. General Sir Claude Auchinleck the British Middle East Commander in Chief, wired congratulations to Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's defending Eighth Army: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. Don't let him get away. Give him no rest. Good luck...
...desert rains came last week Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's tactical units were still waiting to do final battle with General Erwin Rommel's force. At Agedabia, where Rommel is hanging on, both sides maneuvered and skirmished like fighting cocks. In an attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted...
...take Bengasi, the capital of Cyrenaica, Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, in charge on the battlefield, had to push out Germany's General Erwin Rommel. All last week Rommel had prepared to make a stand at Bengasi with what was left of his armored forces. Apparently changing his mind, or afraid of losing valuable armored units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert...