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...Olympic games are the most important symbol of Atlanta's evolution from provincial mill-town to modern metropolis since (dare I say it?) William Tecumseh Sherman...
...there is a worse place than hell, I am in it," he said at one low point) and his caustic ones. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," he complained of his dithering military chief, "I would like to borrow it for a time." William Tecumseh Sherman, preparing to march on Atlanta, exhorted, "War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want...
...There was a pause, and then he offered a story he thought might help frame the answer. During a recent history class, another teacher was suddenly interrupted by a student, a white Southerner, who looked up with a puzzled frown and asked, "Tell me again, which side was Sherman...
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as a school for boys who carried six-guns, read Kipling and mostly went on to Yale, Thacher has evolved into a modern, co-ed institution whose students enroll at colleges all over the country. Of this year's 62 seniors, 28 are headed for Ivy League schools...
...KNOWS WHAT SHERMAN SAID. Announcing his bid for re-election to the Senate, New Jersey's Bill Bradley said he "can't think of anything" that would keep him from serving a six-year term. Does this mean he absolutely, positively won't run for President in 1992? Dollar Bill has amassed $9 million for a Senate race that even a New York Knick could not lose. With such a handy war chest, his demurral sounds a shade less convincing than William Tecumseh Sherman's "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Says a Bradley...