Word: paterno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mortar fire the Eighth Army leveled a road across the dried river bed of the Dittaino. This was part of the "left hook." In the first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
...past shattered pillboxes into Sicily's second city, the biggest city yet taken by a British army in World War II. Bomb-weary, hungry Sicilians stepped from the ruins, with cheers of relief, and cries for bread. For General Montgomery, it was another famous victory. From Catania and Paterno the Eighth thrust columns up the west and east slopes of Mt. Etna for the cleanup in Sicily...
...plenty. ∙ ∙ Joe Louis filed a plea in Chicago to have wife Marva's $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said his fighting does not bring him $250,000 a year-only $56,000, after taxes. ∙ ∙ In Manhattan wealthy Private Joseph Paterno Jr.'s mother asked a court to knock $50 off the $400-a-month separate maintenance her son pays estranged wife Beverly. Mother Paterno said her son's allowance was only $10,000 a year, and besides Beverly was accepting gifts from Playboy Tommy Manville, 47. ∙ ∙ In a trial...