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...hungry French refused to back down. Washington quickly became Virginia's first soldier-a distinction, to be fair, which few others sought. He learned at first hand the slippery and thankless art of Indian diplomacy. He tested his courage when the British expeditionary force of General Edward Braddock was all but wiped out in an ambush in the Monongahela River forests. Washington, white-faced, weak and reeling from a "violent illness," rode for twelve hours before reaching the scene of the battle, had two horses killed beneath him, felt four bullets tear through his clothes, but never faltered...
Left-Wing Forward. It was 9:30 a.m. and scores of M.P.s were nodding, when the biggest of all the Bevanites demanded to be heard. The Honorable Bessie Braddock, whom Winston Churchill once dubbed "that constipated Britannia," plays left-wing forward on Nye Bevan's team. Outside the House of Commons, she works as a model for ladies' outsize garments (bust 50 in., waist 40 in., hips...
Homestead, Braddock, Birmingham, they make their steel with...
Racket Squad (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) declares TV war on the nation's confidence men by showing "real life" stories of ingenious swindles. In the first episode, steely-eyed Police Captain Braddock gives the case history of an "innocent" businessman who was fleeced of $30,000 by sharpies pretending to have advance information on race results. Since the victim had begged to be let in on the deal, televiewers might have been somewhat disconcerted to find him presented as the hero of the piece. Presumably, they had less trouble with the sponsor's message: "Believe in yourself...
...Nosseck didn't spare the blank cartridges, but the action is still dull and stereotyped. Roughly every five minutes, the beleaguered comrades draw up into a photogenic little group to pop away at the omnipresent Red hordes. The American battle tactics are about as clever as those of General Braddock during the Indian Wars, but the band gets through anyway...