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...Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson to see how cleanly, how terribly the British & Imperial Army of the Nile, plus the R. N. and the R. A. F., had swept his country's desert fringe clear of Italians. But a man who awaited Graziani's further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their camps from airplanes, then burning the camps and villages, impressing survivors into labor gangs and conscript regiments. Seyyid Idris was one of Commander...
Friends of the Benny-Allen feud will undoubtedly relish the opportunity of watching as well as hearing the pair's celebrated ruction". Others must be satisfied with occasional appearances by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), who plays Benny's insolent valet, and the Merry Macs, a quartet of swingsters. As an added attraction, Miss Martin revives Cole Porter's My Heart Belongs to Daddy...
...doing: some thought the crowds indicated Roosevelt victory; others were certain the turnout was not only far below 1936, but less than on off-year visits since. But if his audience had fallen off, Franklin Roosevelt had not. Only television could have shown the nation the relish, the skill of his performance before 22,000 screaming Democrats in the Garden, while 25,000 struggled for standing room in the streets outside. Again his best bits were the comic passages: he ridiculed the Republican leadership for opposing many defense measures before World War II began, for saying "There will...
...Killer whales, 25 to 30 ft. long, are the wolves of the sea. Dr. Andrews had heard that killers relish the tongues of other and bigger whales, often tear them out alive. He never believed it until he saw it done. Off the coast of Korea, a pack of killers bore down on a herd of California grey whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against...
...this morning slept over both prayers and breakfast," he records on one morning. "One advantage attended the omission of the latter, namely an appetite at dinner sufficient to relish Commons beef...