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...years, Conan Doyle wrote exclusively for the Strand, in a literary company that has seldom been equaled by any periodical. Shrewd, mustached Herbert Greenough Smith, the Strand's editor for four decades, gave his readers the best in Britain to provide "wholesome and harmless entertainment to hard-working people...
...great leaders they were, but quite capable of errors in command (e.g., Lee's slips at Gettysburg, Jackson's boner at Port Republic) which most of their admirers have glossed over. With Grant only an offstage noise in these first volumes, Williams' real heroes are the shrewd and patient Lincoln, efficient Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the fighting soldiers of the Union army. Williams winds up his critique of the Battle of Gettysburg with this blunt praise: "It would seem that every possible excuse has been put forward to explain Lee's failure...
...sentenced to 40 months to ten years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that the FBI had illegally tapped telephones and intercepted mail to get its evidence...
Other officials followed him. This week the Knesset held its first session in the Jewish Agency building of Jerusalem's New City. Most of the government started functioning in Jerusalem. But shrewd Ben-Gurion left his Foreign Ministry behind in Tel Aviv, sparing foreign diplomatic missions the embarrassment of having to decide whether or not to follow the Israel government to its new capital...
...Desperation," said the new governor of Formosa last week, "is the mother of reform . . . We've got to try new men and new ideas." Shrewd, capable K. C. Wu, onetime mayor of Shanghai and longtime friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, was talking about plans for the administration and defense of his new domain, the rich, 250-mile-long island of Formosa, which had become the last refuge of China's Nationalist government...