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Before him now lies Britain's top field command: commander in chief of the Army of the Rhine. A lean, austere martinet who characterizes himself as "a professional soldier ... no politician," Templer had expected no fond farewells in Malaya. Yet all the way to the airport from his gubernatorial mansion, his Rolls Royce had been mobbed by cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil...
...heavy surf toward the Normandy beaches. Photographer Capa was no master technician; under battle conditions his lighting and his focus were often faulty. He got his best pictures by knowing and understanding war, and by staying close to it. "If your pictures aren't good," he was fond of saying, "you aren't close enough." The late Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt once said: "Bob knows more about the art of war than many four-star generals." He also had a way with people and a flair for "getting around...
...late Heywood Broun was fond of calling Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler "light-heavyweight champion of the upperdog." Even after Broun died, terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler did not forgive him, or his close circle of newspaper friends. Last week the ancient feud erupted in the trial of a $500,000 libel suit. Defendant: Columnist Pegler and Hearst corporations, which syndicate and publish his column. Plaintiff: Broun's old friend, onetime War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, who five years ago invited Pegler's wrath by reviewing a biography of Broun for the New York Herald Tribune. Pegler took part...
After a good many years of taking criticism by distinguished visiting scholars from Britain and Europe, Philosopher Douglas N. Morgan of Northwestern University decided it was time to complain. Last week, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, he talked back. Fond as the U.S. is of visitors, said he, too many"come to America armed with a conviction that we are infants, that our academic degrees - not earned at Oxford or Cambridge - are travesties, and that even our graduate students are merely overgrown addicts of football and television...
Throughout, the Harvard Guide to American History is a scholar's companion. By following its reading lists, the intellectually curious will be well-rewarded; in its advice the fledgling scholar will find guidance, while the older historians will learn new tricks. The Guide seems destined to fulfill the fond purpose of its authors; it is sure "to be outdated quickly by the writings of those...