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...History 169, and Humanities 130. Professor Guerard's course in "Forms of the Modern Novel" played to capacity crowds in 1956, and there is every indication that it will draw as well next fall, after a year's hiatus. "American Intellectual History" was also omitted this year, enabling Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to devote himself to writing and politicking. The acclaim for his book, The Crisis of the Old Order, will probably increase the demand for his course...
...TURN OF THE TIDE (624 pp.)-Arthur Bryant-Doubleday...
...permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during the Depression that some trustees wondered whether the church should not abandon it. By 1943 enrollment had dropped from 2,000 to 800; facultymen were...
...architect of victory in World War II? Churchill? Roosevelt? General Marshall? Eisenhower? None of those guesses hit the mark, according to British Historian Sir Arthur Bryant. His choice is a stooped, round-shouldered retired British officer who looks not unlike a solemn parrot, is addicted to bird watching, and lives quietly with his wife in the gardener's cottage of his estate in Hampshire. Most U.S. readers would stare blankly if asked to identify Field Marshal Alan Brooke, now Lord Alanbrooke. But Bryant's The Turn of the Tide, based on Alanbrooke's wartime diaries, has already...
...setting forth the American tactical claims, Morison attacked the assertion in Sir Arthur Bryant's newly-published book, The Turn of the Tide, that "all strategy issued from the massive brain of Sir Alan Brooke." He wrote that Bryant's book reflects "an abysmal ignorance of the war on his part ... while his remarks on the war in the Pacific are fantastic...