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Meanwhile he had acquired a further honorable record on the battlefield. As an officer in the Pennsylvania National Guard, he had fought with Pershing on the Mexican border. In World War I he had served in France, where he was wounded, gassed and decorated. In 1939, a major general, he commanded and trained Pennsylvania's famed 28th Division. But when war came again, Old Soldier Martin was retired. Heartbroken, he saw his 28th march off under another man's command...
Eight score and nine years rolled gently over the gently rolling battlefield of Princeton. By chance, it was little built upon. This week, while the sweet gums turned as scarlet as the British soldiers' coats, the long-peaceful soil was dedicated as a state park. Said Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds: the University was "succumbing to nostalgia" in its bicentennial year. On the preserved battlefield, any lover of human liberties could look back with pride...
...moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood, inviting Germans to stand on Western democracy's side...
Shaw once wrote that "Caesar is greater off the battlefield than on it." Claude Rains's excellent performance makes that observation valid. As for Vivien Leigh, probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There are other excellent jobs: Flora Robson as Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's savage nurse; Anthony Harvey as her petulant, bewildered little brother; Francis L. Sullivan as the corrupt councilor, and Stewart Granger as Apollodorus...
Superior Cushion. Another minor incident made a familiar crackle. When Murray Garsson's son Captain Joseph H. Garsson-of the Chemical Warfare Service, of course-was court-martialed and convicted for refusing to obey an order to emplace his 4.2 mortar company on the battlefield, it was Andy May who had turned up to lend a helping hand...