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...Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major inter-American boundary dispute...
Deep Sea Chanteys and Sod Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
...phrase for the kind of treatment Columbia has in store for its new star. Her salary, now $800 weekly, is due for a boost. She will also get star billing. At present she is scheduled to play opposite Charles Boyer in Tales of Manhattan, a lead in My Gal Sal, and the title role in My Sister Eileen. Then another musical with Fred Astaire...
...were very visibly moving a force to the Egyptian border. The R.A.F. caught a huge convoy of trucks, mostly large "tankers," as it crept up from the Axis base at Bengasi, and claimed to have destroyed 30. Three days later Army patrols attacked a land convoy between Tobruch and Salûm, and destroyed twelve more. British reconnaissance noted ex tensive digging on the escarpment around Halfâya Pass, only convenient gate from Libya to Egypt; extensive aerial preparations at the airports of Dérna and Gambut...
This week General Marshall-Cornwall whanged away. The opening gambit was addressed somewhat south of Salûm, on the coast hard by the Libyan border. On the second day, British advance forces reached Gambut, 40 miles inside Libya, there claimed to have put to rout an Italian column, and to have destroyed a dozen more vehicles. Both German and Italian communiqués claimed that the attack was broken, and the Germans said their dive-bombers had crushed 60 British vehicles. But both the German and Italian communiques admitted on the second day that the battle was continuing...