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With dawn, the British withdrew from Taranto. Their cruisers patrolled the wide waters until afternoon, then joined the big battlewagons in a return to Alexandria. Not even one Italian airplane came out to challenge their presence. British reconnaissance planes flew in and reported...
...last year's meet the Mikkolames drew a tie for first place with the Italians when Columbia, favored to win, withdrew its fifth...
Last week the Chicago Symphony played the first U. S. work on its list of firstlings. It was a brand-new symphony by Chicago's suave, handsome John Alden Carpenter, who withdrew in 1936 from his family's big twine and awning business, dislikes being called the most eminent U. S. "businessman-composer...
Suddenly, for no reason that anyone in either London or Vichy understood, General de Gaulle withdrew...
...French withdrew after severe fighting in the face of superior numbers...