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...JOHN C. CALHOUN: AMERICAN PORTRAIT (593 pp.) - Margaret Co/V -Houghton Mifflin...
...John Calhoun, born to the cotton rows and the linsey-woolsey of a South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for the presidency, but he took such an uncompromising stand on so many unpopular and often sectional issues that he seemed consciously to be disqualifying himself for the big prize...
Many historians have been tempted to explore these puzzles in Calhoun's character, but none has gathered more personal facts about him or analyzed them with more spirit than Connecticut-born, North Carolina-educated Margaret Coit. In her determination to breathe life into the "steel engraving of a mummy so familiar in our schoolbooks," Biographer Coit occasionally falls into huffing & puffing prose; but she does manage to bring the steel engraving to life in a first-class biography...
Harvard pulled ahead during the third chukker as Beveraggi rapped in four scores, with Tom Calhoun getting one. Cornell was limited to two points...
Leading 9 to 7 at the beginning of the final chukker, the Crimson team put the game away by adding six more tallies as Cornell doubled their score. Tom Calhoun counted three times, his brother twice, and Beveraggi, on a poor mount, once. A last minute drive by Cornell resulted in four goals in two minutes, leaving the Big Red one short...