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Died. Bruce Bliven, 87, author and influential editor of the New Republic (1930-55), which he made a showcase for liberal thinkers and humanists; after suffering a broken hip in a fall; in Palo Alto, Calif
...flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...
...company also got an unexpected puff from Winston's slogan?"Winstons taste good like a cigarette should"?which had been dreamed up in an advertising session with Gray. Questioning the use of "like," Critic Clifton Fadiman assailed the "quiet assassination of the conjunction 'as,' " and Editor Bruce Bliven cried: "I find that I sit in front of my television set shouting at the tiny figures on it: 'No, no, you dope. Like is a preposition...
...Bruce Bliven Jr. is a veteran of the Normandy invasion who fell to wondering after his return to Manhattan if it had happened that way at home. He ended up writing the almost-forgotten story of how indeed it had. The two-day "battle for Manhattan" is not the most glorious chapter in U.S. history. But as Author (The Wonderful Writing Machine) Bliven has pieced it together, with the help of period prints and maps showing the fighting in terms of today's streets and landmarks, his compact and lively book may be just the handy companion for cliff...
...disgraceful was the rout that General Howe could easily have pushed west to the Hudson, cut off the half of Washington's forces still posted at the lower end of the island, and, says Bliven, "the chances were that he would have won the war then and there." But pleasure-loving General Howe stopped for "cakes and Madeira" at Mrs. Murray's on Murray Hill. Washington's men got safely away to Harlem Heights with the loss of only about 50 casualties and 300 prisoners, and the next morning fresh Ranger scouts, led by Lieut. Colonel Thomas...