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NAIROBI, Kenya--Italy's hold on southern Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland has been "doomed," British quarters said tonight, by the capture of the Somaliland capital of Mogadiscio in a British land, sea, and air assault climaxing one of the swiftest victories...
...unprecedented in scale. It covers the whole Mediterranean Sea, and spills out on to the lands around the sea. It has already lasted eight months and shows no signs of abating. In it are engaged vessels ranging from unwieldy monitor to the swiftest aircraft. By it may be decided fates of nations, by it entire areas of human philosophy may be affected. It tests, perhaps finally, the fundamental power of Britain...
...scene set in the delivery room at Widener is the most complicated of the review, also the swiftest and most caustic. It rips and ribs "Harry's Club" for the hopeless book delivery and redtape-edged stack permits. The desk attendant bewails the competition from Boylston, and the mysterious building on the right, while a happy little fellow who appears frequently, and from nowhere, promises "Dancing in the Stacks Tonight" because it's reading period...
...French frontier after cracking through the forts at Liége in conjunction with the First Army. That Army, mobilized north of Aachen and led in under the Limburg tip of The Netherlands by General Alexander von Kluck, was, after passing Liége, to execute the widest, swiftest swing of all through Belgium, to envelop the French left flank and its unready British supports, to sweep around through Paris, to herd the French Army away from the city toward its eastern frontier where it might be surrounded...
Stocks flittered like feathers in the whirlwind. Sugar, metals, oils, chemicals, aircrafts caught the swiftest of the upward currents. In the vortex, some food stocks rose, some fell. Few behaved so wildly as Guantanamo Sugar, long unnoticed at ⅞, up to 6 (600%) on Tuesday, backdown to 3½ at week's end. Among Dow-Jones' 30 industrials could be found samples of virtually every form of windblown behavior...