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...Italy, fortnight ago, roared a triumphant tale of victory over the British Mediterranean Fleet. Gleefully Rome told of sinking a British cruiser in the Malta Channel, damaging an aircraft carrier and another cruiser, putting the Royal Navy to rout. Last week tits British Admiralty issued a different version, backed it up with firsthand accounts of the battle...
What started out yesterday to be another American League rout has suddenly been transformed into an even Stephen world series again as result of the performance...
...Atlantic City, Manhattan. The So-odd youngsters (with a backbone of 18 Philadelphia veterans) sounded good, but some critics reserved judgment. Last week, back from the tour, Dr. Stokowski with the Youth Orchestra put on a show in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall itself and put their reservations to rout. Concertgoers were somewhat startled to see the orchestra framed in a brash, blue acoustical shell, lit by brash, blue lamps...
...Paul municipal golf champion, split the narrow fairways with his long drives, chipped dead to the pin, took the starch out of jittery Dietz who tried hard to make a good showing before his home-town folks. At the end of the morning round, the match had become a rout, ended on the 30th green...
According to Scoopster Wythe Williams, M. Laval repeated his report. Suddenly, like a Nazi delayed bomb, Edouard Daladier, who had for some weeks lain quiet as a dud, exploded. It was all the fault of this disgraceful rout in Flanders, he raged...