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STOCKHOLM, Saturday, April 27--French Foreign Legion troops from Africa were reported in frontier dispatches early today to have driven the Germans back "with heavy losses" to the north of Trondheim while Allied troops and planes battled Nazi motorized columns south of the strategic Norwegian seaport...
...Russia extends her hegemony around the Baltic and reaches back toward maritime power, Zhdanov gains in prestige. For Leningrad is Russia's No. 1 seaport-in area, the world's second largest-and headquarters of the Red Fleet. And if Russia's power spreads through Scandinavia to the Atlantic, Zhdanov will be the man who wields...
...settlers called it Paradise, and Paradise Valley it remained until 1876, when President Grant named the post office Moscow. Because there was a good deal of U. S. sympathy for Russia in the Crimean War, there were a good many Moscows, Odessas, Petersburgs established throughout the country: a Delaware seaport changed its name to Odessa in the hope of bolstering its trade (and promptly became a ghost town). Last week in Moscow, Idaho, seat of the State University, proposals for a new name included: 1) Borah, 2) Tat-Kin-Mah, 3) Paradise, 4) Cow. Meantime Mayor Henry Hansen sent...
Born "dead" and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a "cottagy" house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith. Her father was the Earl of Birkenhead, a tall, olive-skinned aristocrat who started life as plain F. E. Smith. Her paternal great-grandmother was a gypsy named Bathsheba. As between her title and her gypsy blood, Lady Eleanor much prefers to have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly...
Starting on Christmas Eve, Finland's gulf seaport of Viipuri, ten miles behind the Mannerheim Line, was treated to a demonstration more melodramatic than lethal: long-range shelling by a battery of Russian "Little Berthas" about 25 miles away. Duds proved the guns to be 8-inchers, firing presumably at a main railroad supply line to the Mannerheim positions, but hitting the city and its suburbs indiscriminately. One shell knocked a top corner off evacuated Viipuri's one hotel, the Knut Posse*, in which numerous foreign correspondents were huddled...