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...thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough for all the cardinals "unless they ruthlessly cut down their...
...duty he has spent "picking up the sort of information that seldom gets into the formal reports." Collecting this data has taken him, aside from the hot spots already mentioned, to "headquarters such as Guadalcanal, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, and Brisbane," and he has witnessed the invasions of Morocco and Saipan...
...centuriesthe fat greasy rulers of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli had maintained s gang rule over all Mediterranean shipping. Rather than provoke these fierce Barbary pirates the maritime nations of Europe patiently paid protection money in a steady tribute of jewels, gold, ships and gunpowder. When the youthful U.S., short of ships and cast loose from the protection of the British Navy, decided to join in this appeasment policy. President John Adams sent young William Eaton to supervise...
Sidi Lamine was not the only distinguished African visitor to Paris in recent weeks. He had been preceded by Sidi Mohamed Ben Youseff, Sultan of Morocco, who had received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria...
Died. Harold Norman Denny, 56, able, longtime roving correspondent for the New York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason trials; of a heart attack; in Des Moines, Iowa. Captured in Libya in 1941 and imprisoned for six months, he later followed the First Army from the Normandy beachheads to the union with the Russians. His advice to war reporters: "A dead correspondent sends no dispatches...