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...Africa." But day after day the R.A.F. bombarded from the sky and supplemented artillery in pounding the Italian positions in the mountains. In twelve days British bombers dropped 120 tons of bombs, and in the last attacks before the Italians gave up, R.A.F. pilots were in the air from dawn till dark...
...White Palace sometime during the early morning. Later in the day it was reported that Prince Paul had been arrested at Vinkovici, near the Hungarian frontier. Still later he was reported in Greece, either a hostage or a hideaway. What was important was that Paul was gone. At dawn King Peter issued his proclamation...
...TIME rated Reader Davey's first novel, Dawn Breaks the Heart, a creditable Grade-B performance, had no political angle...
...Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi, to the Herex building. Police discovered her whereabouts as extras began to roll with her by-line story of life with the notorious automobile thief and killer. When, at dawn, her story was told, Carson calmly turned her over to the police battalions that clamored outside the Herald & Examiner...
...mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps and gas, then the star-destroying terrors of electricity, then the icy twitching of neon; and now, suddenly, the starlit darkness, as profound as that of Norman times...