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...Fort Bragg. Calif., nobody believed that forehanded Abe Triplett was going to kill himself when he picked a spot under a big tree, permitted himself to be photographed digging his grave (see cut ). Nobody believed it when he went home, built himself a coffin. Two days later Fort Bragg found it was wrong...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...
...last week, Nevada could claim about 500 prosperous "immigrants" to its tax-free Utopia. Aside from such wealthy men as Errett Cord, Caleb Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move...
Laid principally in Kentucky, Author Gordon's story alternates between plantation scenes and eyewitness accounts of the shifting Western battleground. The domestic pictures are much the more successful. The war episodes, in which real but rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters...
...little further inquiry established that Coldwater & Flynn had been retained for $15,000 a year as soon as Messrs. Cord, Bragg & Smith had taken possession of New York Shipbuilding. Mr. Manning naively declared he did not know that Mr. Flynn was Secretary of State of New York...