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...GALLANT HOOD (383 pp.) - John P. Dyer-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Grand Manner. What happened next, as Biographer Dyer records it in his careful, compassionate reconstruction of Hood's life, was the beginning of a legend. "Down into the creek ravine wallowed [Hood's brigade] under the deadly spittle of the belching artillery on the hill. Up on the other side they came and with a terrific shout gave the first line the bayonet. It fell back on the second line and it broke. As the blue mass retreated up the hill the fire of the Texans was poured into it with terrible effect." Hood had broken through...
Five Methodist missionaries have been reported captured in the Korean war: the Rev. A. Kris Jensen of New Cumberland, Pa.; the Rev. Larry Zellers of Weatherford, Texas; Miss Bertha Smith of Marshall, Mo.; Miss Nell Dyer of Fort Smith, Ark.; Miss Helen Rosser of Cordele, Ga. Together with Dr. Ernest Kisch of Austria, a Jew recently baptized a Methodist and doing special work for his church in Korea, the five were cut off by North Korean troops in the city of Kaesong...
...Dyer-Bennett sang some traditional ballads, "Green sleeves," "Barbara Allen" and "Blow the Candles Out." The last had a tinge of bawdiness since it was written before "the moral gloom of our own period," when a little spice was taken for granted. Although he hinted that a little spice never hurts, Dyer-Bennett declined to sing anything bawdier...
...rest of the pieces were relatively unfamiliar: minnesong, Shubert songs, and works for the guitar. In explaining his program Dyer-Bennett defined himself as "not a balladeer but a minstrel: a musical entertainer who sings the accompaniment of a stringed instrument." One standard of a ministrel's success is whether he leaves his audience wanting one more song; that is what Dyer-Bennett...