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...photographers, held up at the station door, were rescued and passed through police lines by Secret Service operators. Steve Early got through one police line by showing his credentials with their engraved golden Presidential eagle. Before he could get to the train itself he was stopped by a police sergeant, flanked by one Irish and one Negro cop. They were under orders, once the President got aboard, to let no one approach the train...
...seas, of fighting in Haiti and Nicaragua, of duty in Samoa and Shanghai. He reads that history in campaign ribbons on oldtimers' blouses, in battle streamers on the regimental flags, in the Corps motto, "Semper Fidelis." He is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon at Chateau-Thierry: "Come on, you - , do you want to live forever?" When a detachment shoves off for service on a foreign shore, oldtimers who have been left out-both officers and men-pack their duffle and carry it down to the station or dock...
Such a war was the American Revolution. In it fought Sergeant Roger Lamb, whom Officer Robert Graves of the Royal Welch Fusiliers discovered while teaching his platoon their regimental history in 1914. Quarter of a century later, Graves had decided the American Revolution was "the most important single event of modern times." And, visiting in Princeton, N. J., he was struck by the U. S.'s magnificent reception of George VI and his Queen. Graves's thoughts returned to Sergeant Lamb. Result is a fresh and provoking historical romance, Sergeant Lamb's America, out this week...
Chapter after chapter of Sergeant Lamb's America is less narrative than informal history. Admits Lamb: "The separation between the Crown and the Colonies must in the nature of things have come about at some time or other, and perhaps it was as well that it came when it did." Even so, his view of the partition is a Redcoat's, not a Yankee's. Without mentioning the Declaration of Independence, Lamb subtly offers the other side of its blistering list of grievances against the "Tyrant," George III. Lamb's own grievance is that, while...
...Roger Lamb's sharp eyes are open also to the wonders of the New World: St. Lawrence scenery, hoop snakes, strange herbs, the odd customs of the Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...