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Years after Appomattox. a simple, honest and superlatively skillful horse soldier, General Nathan Bedford ("Get thar fustest") Forrest, attended a meeting of Confederate veterans. He listened to typical Southern oratory (Calhoun's principles and Scott's language) on the Lost Cause. Hardly a word was said about slavery. Forrest, ill at ease amid hypocrisy, rose to say that if he hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers, and other folks' niggers, he never would have gone to war in the first place. Forrest was interested in Sambo, not Ivanhoe. The sentiment...
...systems and grand strategy. It was a short course which wound up proposing a $5 billion cut in the U.S. Air Force (TIME, May 18). Day in & day out McNeil opposed the program to build the Air Force up to 143 wings by 1956, and advanced the late Admiral Forrest Sherman's arguments that the U.S. should divide defense appropriations among the three services without establishing a specified date when any one of them should complete its buildup...
...adaptation written by Author Faulkner. Some changes had been made: the young man no longer kills himself, and his wife is no longer a tramp. The story emerged as a perfectly adequate but hardly startling half-hour's TV entertainment, starring Dan Duryea, Sally Forrest and Mildred Natwick...
Harry Sacks again led the Crimson scorers with 20 points, mostly on short pivot shots. Bill Dennis shot nine foul shots to pace the fourth-quarter spurt. Ed Condon, Dick Manning, and Forrest Hansen also contributed several points at critical moments; Condon's set shot pulled the Crimson up to a late 62-all tie and his foul shot put it in front to stay shortly after, with three minutes left in the game...
Sacred Character. The trouble really started after Freeman Editor Henry Hazlitt brought Forrest Davis, ex-Saturday Evening Post Washington editor, to the magazine. Instead of being Hazlitt's man, Davis had ideas of his own on how to run the magazine, and Chamberlain and Managing Editor Suzanne La Follette generally agreed. In short order Hazlitt had a falling-out with them. Among other things he also objected to putting out the "kind of magazine in which McCarthy is a sacred character." In October Hazlitt, Newsweek contributing editor and onetime (1934-46) New York Times editorial writer, resigned, though...