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Last week, 110 years after Lieut. Colonel George Custer made his infamous last stand, Plains Indians and the 7th Cavalry Regiment met again at Little Bighorn. Their purpose: to rebury the bones of 34 of Custer's men discovered during a two-year archaeological survey. Early in the morning, descendants of the Cheyenne held a prayer service; in the afternoon, cavalrymen and Indians, many of them veterans of America's past three wars, carried out a military internment ceremony...
...teams," adds John Havlicek, the retired god. "They're much better. But the '60s teams--they'd have to play them." For that matter, the Celtics still have to play the Rockets, though with two to five games left in the tournament, Coach Bill Fitch was already invoking General Custer, and 7-ft. 4- in. Ralph Sampson, who caught an elbow instead of a break, had a seam of sorrowful stitches sewn along one cheek. "It's been so long since our team has had the bottom drop out," said Fitch. "The best basketball doesn't always come after...
...California editor last year, "they are convinced that nothing can happen except in the area of Manhattan bounded by the lounge of the Algonquin and the dining room of the Four Seasons." Then came Evan Connell's Son of the Morning Star, a brilliant account of General George Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It climbed the best-seller list and remained there for six months. Not for the first time, the industry was forced to admit that some of the nation's better publishing houses are located a world away from New York...
...some 300 miles south of North Point in Santa Barbara, is an even smaller house. Its staff of six includes John Martin, 54, publisher, and his wife Barbara, 45, designer. The Martins, who work out of their home, are relentlessly noncommercial: "If Evan Connell came to me with a Custer book," claims Martin, "I wouldn't be interested in publishing it." Black Sparrow began in 1966, when Martin, then an office- supply executive, sold his valuable collection of D.H. Lawrence first editions and decided to go into business for himself. He sedulously imitated a famed boutique publisher...
...MORNING STAR: CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Evan S. Connell. An unconventional, highly evocative retelling of the celebrated military disaster in southern Montana by a novelist turned historian...