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...rigid fact about Empire was Britain's greatest misfortune last week. The structure of Empire leans on geographic strong points. Knock down the buttress of Singapore, and the whole eastern wall of Empire falls. Knock out the Suez Canal, and British power in all the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean collapses. Last week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other...
Tobruch, lying on the flank of Axis communications across the Libyan desert, had been held by a small British garrison ever since the initial German drive. Before the Axis attack on Egypt went any farther, it would be wise to try to knock...
...chairmanship, turned over the throttle to Western Union's Roy Barton White. Oldest R.R. president in the U.S., he had headed B. & 0. for 31 years, was the last link between the days of Harriman-Hill-Gould and the regulation-cramped ICC. But spry Uncle Dan hated to knock off. Said he: "I wish I were only 60 and could keep on. I love...
...Ziegfeld Girls turn out like Sheila. Two who glorify differently are sultry Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr), who discovers that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does...
...return to hitting form which the team exhibited. Lou Clay, who batted two-for-four including a three-bagger, and Bart Harvey, who smacked out a pair of doubles, looked best at the plate for the Stahlmen. Burgy Ayres also connected twice in four trips, including one extra base knock...