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...Ethiopia the Packards saw lagging Marshal Badoglio drive like mad to reach Addis Ababa at the head of his army. They also watched Blackshirt politicians arrive by plane to snatch a share in the victory publicity. Count Ciano took a hotel room next to the Packards' and joined them one night for a drink. "He was bubbling over with enthusiasm. 'England is through,' he said, 'or she would have taken a stronger stand against us. . . . We are ready for the future. We have the only experienced army in Europe as a result of our Ethiopian training...
...Ankara's famed Karpich Restaurant Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu ("Sarah" to Allied newsmen) linked arms at the bar with British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen ("Snatch"). They strolled to Sarah's table for a tête-à-tête that was unprecedented because it was public. The fascinated crowds then saw them steal two young women from a table of young British and U.S. diplomats and whirl happily and jovially around the dance floor...
Next morning the happy secret of Sarah and Snatch was out: the U.S. invasion of North Africa. Turkey hoped, through Allied control of the Mediterranean, for a direct route for British-U.S. Lend-Lease supplies. Turkish-Soviet relations improved at once: Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov flew back to Turkey after a cool absence of four months...
During the next five days Abstractionist Hélion and his fellow prisoners were marched 147 miles. For five days they had no food whatever, only what water they could snatch from buckets placed on the road by French peasants. On the fifth night, utterly exhausted, they were waked up by their German guards who screamed: "Run! Run!" The prisoners ran. Nazis fired at their heels. Hélion saw seven men drop dead from exhaustion. Those who survived were given tobacco and food. Purpose of this treatment was: first to terrify the prisoners, then to show them how kind...
Completely outdistancing opposition, the Yale cross country team upset all predictions to snatch the heptagonal championship Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. Led by Leroy Schwartzkopf, the Yale team finished with a total of 40, 31 points ahead of Harvard, which placed second in the team standing with 71 points...