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Lieut. Commander Winchell, U.S.N.R. (Retired), gobbed for the Navy in World War I. He was a yeoman-receptionist to the late Rear Admiral Marbury Johnston in the New York City customs house...
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Producer Cornell has gathered a cast of veterans who act like it-Raymond Massey (Sir Colenso), Bramwell Fletcher (the painter), Clarence Derwent, Whitford Kane, Ralph Forbes, Colin Keith-Johnston. Cecil Humphreys is sidesplitting as the pompous Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington, who explains that he finds it necessary to live in the style to which his rich patients are accustomed...
...often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II." It so happens that Lee was not in command at the First Battle of Manassas. The Confederates were commanded by Beauregard, who was joined by Joseph E. Johnston and later in the afternoon by Kirby Smith. Stonewall Jackson, looking over the field after the battle, was reputed to have said: "Give me 10,000 fresh troops and I will be in Washington tonight." It is a safe bet that General Sir Archibald Wavell is thoroughly familiar with Jackson...
...TIME was off base in putting Lee at Manassas I, apologizes to some 50 readers from both North and South who protested. Lee had chosen the place (Bull Run) and mapped the tactical approach to battle, including the junction of Beauregard and Johnston, but when it was fought he was chafing at a desk in Richmond, where he had been left by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson might have been the Wavell of Manassas I. He vainly tried to persuade Beauregard, Johnston and Davis, who were conducting a post-mortem on the battlefield, to push on after...