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...That the State Department will not shelve General de Gaulle, nor forget that he alone was the nucleus of French resistance the organizer of the Fighting French Army and the man who turned over to the Allied nations the major part of the French colonial empire...
With 25 or 30 potentially able candidates fighting for positions to be fitted around a strong nucleus from last years' team, squash coach John (Jack) Barnaby '32 finds himself at the moment in the alarming spot of having a team with nobody to play...
...some 30,000 other Axis captives had already reached the British Army's rear. Other thousands, not slain or wounded, still wandered in the desert. Rommel might have some 20,000 effectives left, plus a few Italian reserve divisions, a remnant of his original force, but still the nucleus of an army if it was permitted time and opportunity to reform...
Rommel was trying to keep the nucleus of an army intact, trying to hold together what was left of his once superb 15th and 21st Armored and 90th Light Motorized Divisions. Somewhere, perhaps at Matrûh, perhaps at Hellfire Pass, he might be able to make a stand. But faster than Rommel's flight was the R.A.F...
Russell plays Ruth, the older and more practical of the two Sherwood sisters from Ohio, and Blair is the man-snaring sister Eileen, whose Hellenic qualities form the nucleus of a pell-mell plot that seldom leaves the disorderly Greenwich Village apartment. Ruth tries for writing fame, while Eileen makes a few half-hearted attempts to break into Gotham theatrical circles. Their efforts meet every grotesque obstacle known to the skillful playwright. Mashers wander through their flat at all times of the day and night, blasts from a new subway running underneath shatter their sleep, drunks peer at them through...