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...sunrise on an April morning in 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 1,200 Confederate forces attacked the Union works at Fort Pillow in West Tennessee. Within hours the Rebs had butchered most of the ill-prepared garrison soldiers...
GEORGE C. MARSHALL: ORDEAL AND HOPE 1939-42 by Forrest C. Pogue. 491 pages. Viking...
...with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation at Lexington, Va., housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue can be relied upon to commit no injustice to the general. He can also be relied upon to use no fresh...
...Forrest P. Chisman, of Mont Alto, Pa. (Government); Richard W. Franke, of Kansas City, Mo. (Anthropology); Donald E. Graham, of Washington, D.C. (History and Literature); Roger E. Howe. of Ithaca, N.Y. (Mathematics); Wilbur R. Knorr Jr., of West Islip, N.Y. (History and Science); Eugene E. Leach, of Silver Spring, Md. (History); Richard I. Rabinowitz, of Brooklyn, N.Y. (History and Literature); Peter B. Shalen, of New York City (Mathematics), and W. Frank White, of Canton, Miss. (Social Studies...
...Forrest-Brumfield strategy was simple: take the lead and stay there. "When you're in front," said Brumfield, "the other horses have to cover the ground you've already been over." Going into the first turn of the H-mile race, Kauai King had a two-length lead which he widened to as much as four lengths in the backstretch. Abe's Hope, second choice of the bettors at 3-1, was hopelessly outrun. One by one, Kauai King's other challengers made their moves. Braulio Baeza rushed Stupendous up along the rail; Earlie Fires ranged...