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Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
...East command of General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. correspondents who have written dispatches critical of the commander or of occupation policies have soon learned what it is like to be unpopular. Some got the deep freeze from Mac-Arthur's staff. Others who left Tokyo on visits, or assignments in the Far East, had to wait weeks and slice through endless snarls of red tape before they were allowed to return to Japan (TIME...
LINCOLN FINDS A GENERAL, Vols. I & II (902 pp.)-Kenneth P. Williams-Mac-millan...
...chagrined professional historian back to the library stacks. No one comes off worse than Major General George B. McClellan, whose reputation, even for his conduct of the disastrous Peninsular Campaign of 1862, had improved under the ministrations of recent historians. Williams makes it hard to believe that "Little Mac" was anything but a stuffed tunic, an ambitious parade-ground dandy whose timidity in combat was close kin to cowardice. In battle, Confederate generals relied on McClellan's fears just as Lincoln came to be sure of his incompetence. Writes Williams: "No blow by [Stonewall] Jackson could be quite...
...Northern commanders who followed Little Mac fare better, but none of them (Burnside, Hooker, Meade) had the considered aggressiveness that was needed when the battle was the payoff. Even when he outsmarted Lee, "Fighting Joe" Hooker (a nickname he didn't earn and didn't relish) failed to follow up effectively because he lacked Lee's (and Grant...