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...morning of June 11 Admiral Pavesi sent a message to an American air base: "Beg surrender through lack of water." At 11:40 a.m. planes over the island and lookouts aboard cruisers and destroyers offshore (General Dwight Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham were aboard the British cruiser Aurora) spotted two signals : a white cross on the airfield, a white flag on the wrecked harbor installations. By 12:22 p.m. British landing parties had scrambled ashore, mopped up a few troops who had either not been informed of the surrender or could not see their own signals through Pantelleria...
Goldsmith found out about youth the hard way. Orphaned son of a pair of East Aurora, N.Y. schoolteachers, he tried vaudeville, playwrighting, stage and cinemacting without success. To earn a living while pursuing these arts he trimmed cigarstore windows, wrote insurance-company maxims (sample: "Sleep with your windows open and your mouth shut") and lectured high-school students on the benefits of drinking milk. Audiences used to groan when his subject was announced...
Gentleman from Indiana. Elmer Holmes Davis, now 53, was born in Aurora, Ind., a tired little town which got along by making boxes and coffins, selling to farmers on Saturday night and keeping one eye cocked for a rise in the Ohio River. His father, the elderly, bearded president of Aurora's First National Bank, was known as the richest man in town...
Scholar from Oxford. Davis skipped quickly through Aurora's schools, went on to Indiana's Franklin College, where he picked up a nickname ("The Deacon") and every scholastic prize, got himself a Rhodes scholarship. Aurora's oldtimers, mightily impressed, still remember the day he left home for England: "He was so calm and businesslike you'd have thought he was just going up to Cincinnati...
...Cambridge it has recommended no social or academic merger with Radcliffe, but a combination of parallel liberal arts courses to preserve for the duration as much of the liberal arts curriculum as possible. But there is a danger that even this mild proposal will be defeated by the aurora of Lifelike coeducationalism that has surrounded...