Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert E. Lee, the untouchable Galahad of the Confederacy; historians of the Civil War were agreed that the job need never be done again. Another six years were spent on his three-volume Lee's Lieutenants, a study in command and military personality so lastingly pertinent that General Omar N. Bradley made it his major reading in the days before the European invasion...
...Freeman family moved to Virginia in 1742, which makes them not quite F.F.V., but Biographer Freeman's maternal ancestors were. Young Douglas was a 17-year-old honor student at Richmond College when his father, who had been a private in Lee's army (and later a general in the Confederate veterans organization), took him to a Confederate reunion. The sight of the Confederacy's brave armless and legless old men stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever...
Freeman was 29 with a Ph.D. in history when New York Publisher Charles Scribner asked him to do a one-volume biography of General Lee. Freeman delivered it to Scribner's son 19 years later (January 1934*) in four volumes. At that, he got it done only by putting himself on his present rigorous timetable in 1926. Said Scribner: "This is a formidable job. We will have to sell 4,000 sets to break even." Freeman's reply: "I'm cheatin' you, man!" To date Scribner's has sold 35,000 sets...
...story of the afternoon was summed up in a little incident that happened after the game. A brown limousine nosed through the post-game crowd carrying General Omar Bradley. All Cadets sprang to the curb and snapped to attention; the Harvard partisans continued undisturbed down the road to the parking-lots...
...admit evidence and fix the guilt of the past. The ostensible purpose of an international conference is to reach constructive agreement upon future settlements. Recognizing this functional distinction, the U. N. charter-makers at San Francisco separated the International Court of Justice from the Security Council and the General Assembly. The most discouraging and barren aspect of the current Paris U. N. meetings is that the delegates of East and West have sat as a grand jury rather than as diplomatic plenipotentiaries...