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...thousands of U.S. troops landed along the 1,500-mile Moroccan-Algerian coastline. They picked up the cry: "Let's head east!" "East" meant Tunisia first, and after that a juncture with the British Eighth Army for the final mop-up somewhere in Libya of General Rommel's bedraggled Afrika Korps. Five or six fresh Italian divisions apparently are also intact and ready for battle somewhere in the Tripoli-Bengazi area. As long as the Axis was in Tunis, the way to Rommel's forces was barred...
...Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, was cut off from the rest of the country as Italian occupation forces sought to mop up Partisan patriots and restore order...
...Allied advance already had carried as much as four and a half miles into the north, central and south sectors of the El Alamein line, and mop-up detachments were fast obliterating the enemy pockets of resistance left behind by the advance guard...
...mop-headed, bumptious, 22-year-old sculpture student from Manhattan's East Side collected $400 for illustrating a book by Hutchins Hapgood. On this, he bought a ticket to Paris, where during his first few weeks...
...were there to hear mop-maned Leopold Stokowski and the Los Angeles Philharmonic play Shostakovich's new Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony (TIME, July 20). Black-tailed musicians filed out in the jerry-built unpainted shell. When a shapely blonde violinist took her place in the rear row, the fun began. "Bring her up front," yelled the soldiers...