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...shouted: "Here, you damned son of a bitch, get out of here or you're a dead man." Someone fired a musket. Someone else jabbed a bayonet into Gilbert's horse and it galloped off into the darkness. The general's staff followed. Observes Author Bruce Catton dryly: "It took a certain knack to handle western volunteers, and not all regulars...
...recouping some personal glory. And Long-street-why did he not attack as told, while opportunity still lay before him? "He wouldn't disobey commands," says a lesser general. "That's true, sir. But he might refuse requests," replies another. With the expert advice of Bruce Catton and Drama Critic Walter Kerr, Director Delbert (Marty) Mann and Author Sapinsley underscored the theme bluntly, as in peevish Longstreet's mockery: "Lee says: 'I'd be much obliged if you could see your way clear...
...give in to the Eastlands, nor to try to match them in rancor. It is to hasten the progress of Negroes outside the South, while pressing for all "deliberate speed" in the enforcement of the court's decision. In U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, Historian Bruce Catton says that "the Civil War . . . infinitely broadened the category of American citizenship and the meaning of the American experiment ... It had committed the nation to a working belief in the brotherhood of man. This probably was a little too much to swallow at one gulp...
...American Heritage they picked Pulitzer Prizewinner Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton, 56. Pay to contributors is low (usually $200 for an article). Most contributors write for it as a labor of love. The magazine's success is proof of the Catton credo that "history need not be approached on tiptoe with hat in hand. It can be the most fascinating subject in the world...
...Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness, The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. Victor Borge in two one-man shows, Jack Benny in three original comedies, and Julie Harris in A Wind from the South. CBS viewers will also get a new cartoon series made by UPA, the producers of Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, the new Phil Silvers show, long film...