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Next morning, reinforced by garrison troops moved down at night from nearby Tingo, Odría's forces counterattacked, recaptured all points, crushed the rebellion. At least 50 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, scores more wounded. By noon, except for occasional sniping from rooftops, the uprising was over. Rebel Chieftain Mostajo was arrested, then released because the army feared that jailing would put him in a martyr's niche...
...garrison town, Lucien falls in love with a great-eyed, high-minded young widow of noble birth named Bathilde de Chasteller. Bathilde soon loves him too, but is too proud to fall into the arms which Lucien is too shy to open. At the end, a rabble of nobility, jealous of Lucien's success with the wealthy widow they want for themselves, conspires to mount a gruesome charade. It convinces Lucien that his innocent lady love has had an illegitimate child by another man. Heartbroken, he rushes back to Paris, utterly unaware that he has been japed...
There is a fragment of Robert Bly's Garrison Prize winning poem "The Indian Trail" printed under the title "Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments...
...even a clear image though it seems to be struggling after some psychological mood. Similarly Donald Hall's "Old Home Day" goes to unnecessary, and near baffling lengths of symbolism in creating a brief impression of what seems to be the dying granduer of Wilmot, New Hampshire. His other Garrison Honorable Mention is more successful in expressing the feelings, arising from memory mixed with desire that must come to the old when watching young lovers...
Receiving honorable mention in the Garrison competition were Donald A. Hall, Jr. '51, Peter S. Hank '51, and William L. Phelps '46. There were no competitors for the Jeremy Belknap Prize and the Sales Prize while the Winthrop Sargent Prize for 1949-50 will not be awarded...