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...whoosh of rockets from British strafing planes. In the barricaded streets and around the ruins on the storied hills the tide of fighting ebbed & flowed. British Lieut. General Ronald M. Scobie warned ELAS that he would attack "with all the arms at my disposal," did so next day. Sherman tanks, spitting shells, dispersed ELAS troops in Mount Lycabettus. Beaufighters scattered ELAS concentrations north of the capital...
Married. Walter Sherman Gifford, 59, high-domed, precise president of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., father of two Navy sons (the elder lost in the South Pacific last July); and Augustine ("Tine") Lloyd Perry, 50, mother of four sons in the armed services; both for the second time; in Pompano...
Because the battle lines were everywhere, all Athens was a no man's land in which few unarmed civilians dared to venture. One chilly dawn British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie ordered tanks to take the ELAS and KKE (Greek Communist Party) headquarters on Constitution Square. A Sherman tank smashed into one building; airborne troops entered the other with the aid of new plastic explosives. The committees were captured, but not communist Secretary George Siantos...
...hell," said General Sherman, and college girls of 1944 have taken up his cry. From Oregon to Florida, from Sweet Briar to Bryn Mawr, lonely young American females bewail a shift in the balance of power between college men and women. The men now hold the reins...
Well, off to Briggs Cage and we'll all do Marine Corps push-ups and deep knee bends in unison. Guerre--as Sherman so aptly puts it--is a helluva way to spend your dawning hours...