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...ZULU. A heroic band of British redcoats fights off hordes of proud native warriors in this bloody, bristling adventure film based on a historic battle at Rorke's Drift, Natal...
Died. Stewart Holbrook, 71, author and historian, a salty New Englander who in 20 fast-moving, informative volumes on early America (The Age of the Moguls, The Yankee Exodus) often found the human side more interesting than the heroic, serving up such tidbits as Ethan Allen's incurable love of "stonewalls" (cider laced with rum) and the fact that Billy the Kid in real life was a bucktoothed adenoid case; of a stroke; in Portland...
Recognition, at last, for the heroic Germans who persistently op posed Hitler. See BOOKS, The Forgotten...
...Peter Scott, skipper of the Sovereign [Aug. 21], is also a "leading ornithologist," a noted and remarkably talented painter, specializing in the most realistic waterfowl portraits. As a sailor, he is following in the footsteps of his heroic father, Robert Falcon Scott, the man who reached the South Pole only to find that Raoul Amundsen had reached there shortly before...
...World War I, of course, that Brooke found completion in every sense, and he seemingly anticipated his fate years ahead of time. It was not a heroic death. The war poet, as he is remembered, was a victim of blood poisoning aboard a ship in the Aegean. His grave on the island of Skyros attracts almost as many tourists as Shelley's grave in the English Protestant Cemetery in Rome. In Brooke's memory, Grantchester's clock for many years was stopped at ten to three...