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...JUDAH P. BENJAMIN-Robert Douthat Meade-Oxford...
...whom Abraham Lincoln called the smartest of the Confederate civil leaders is no more familiar to most U.S. readers than Felix Kirk Zollicoffer.* Yet Judah Philip Benjamin was one of the most astonishing figures in U.S. history. This week, 59 years after his death, he got a full-length biography...
Most men are satisfied with one career. Judah Benjamin had five. Before he died at the age of 72 he had been 1) a great U.S. lawyer; 2) a railroad promoter; 3) a U.S. Senator; 4) Confederate Cabinet officer and Jefferson Davis' right-hand man through the Civil War; 5) a great lawyer in Great Britain. The careers are as neatly divided as the acts of a well-made play...
...second plane, followed it down, saw it crash in a towering cloud of dust. Back at his base, Lieut. Hall received special congratulations from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His Focke-Wulf was the first enemy plane to be shot down by the Negro fighter squadron commanded by Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis...
Between then and Pantelleria, the squadron had been the subject of many a row over its segregation from white outfits. Its officers, headed by the C.O., slim, tea-colored Lieut. Colonel Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., joined in none of the debate, plugged hard and long at their training. By the time West Pointer Davis led his P-4OS into battle, white airmen were ready to admit that the outfit was good, that in aerial marksmanship (at which it had had an unusual amount of training) it was one of the best...