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...railroads who in 1906 rebuilt the line that served the Panama Canal, was a consultant in the reorganization of the Soviet Union's badly managed rail routes in 1930 and introduced America's first diesel-powered streamliners and bubble-dome cars; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)-Barbara W. Tuchman-Macmillan...
...rehearsal for years. Never before had so many nations so thoroughly plotted the destruction of their enemies. When the fighting finally began, in the long, hot summer of 1914, the great armies moved eagerly onstage to take up their long-assigned positions. In The Guns of August, Historian Barbara W. Tuchman (The Zimmermann Telegram) tells how, in the very first month of World War I, all the dramatic plans disintegrated into four years of wasting disaster...
...narration is introduced by a stilted device: the narrator is the guardian angel (or conscience) of the woman, and he chats with her like a second-rate Whitman. The woman herself, Barbara Boxley, is a good actress, but her role is so uneven and inconsistent that she cannot make much...
Divorce & a Horse. Divorce was Giesler's other specialty. Married twice himself (he had two daughters and one son), he helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann...