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Graziani, by week's end, had pushed the vanguard of his 260,000 desert troops 50 miles along the coast of northwestern Egypt to Sidi Barráni. There he stopped, or was stopped. Ahead of him, along a salt-scarred road-a three-hour run in a fast tank-lay Mersa Matruh, first major objective in Italy's drive to conquer Egypt, a prize the Fascist press at home could shout through the streets as noisily as the populace once roared at slaves in clanking chains. But Graziani waited...
...Detroit, soft-spoken Negro Bandleader Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington announced that after five years he had finished composing Boola, a three-hour opera on "the authentic history of the American Negro.'' Said Ellington, "You can't play swing forever...
Last week one faux pas was made and another was narrowly averted. The blun der: BBC, despite instructions for strict secrecy, announced that on July 1 Sir Stafford had had a three-hour talk with Joseph Stalin. The narrow escape: Be cause the mails are impossibly slow, Sir Stafford corresponds by cable with his wife in London. Recently he told her he had bought an Airedale named Joe. Last week, Lady Cripps told friends, she wrote a cable to her husband, ended it with "Greetings to Joe," saw her blunder, struck out the last word, substituted "Airedale...
...British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare took no offense, joined Generalissimo Francisco Franco next morning on a reviewing stand to watch an impressive three-hour parade headed by units of the now reorganized Spanish Army. It proved surprisingly strong in highly mechanized equipment and gleaming field artillery. As Generalissimo Franco stood side by side with imperturbable Sir Samuel, they ignored excited Spanish shouts: "We want Gibraltar! We want Gibraltar...
...weeks, when the Carnegie Foundation sets up shop in the Yard, Seniors will be offered a chance to sit down for two three-hour sessions and tell all they know about everything. At first shot, sandwiched in between these and divisionals, this looks like too much of a good thing--even Information Please would lose its zest after the fifth hour...