Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unanswerable Question. Last weekend, exactly ten years after his great decision. President Eisenhower loafed with Mamie at Camp David, his hideout in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. He visited his nearby farm at Gettysburg. Pa., waded through waist-high wheat, then returned to Camp David for a session with bridge-playing friends. To the D-day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy he sent a copper torch and message, recalling Allied wartime unity (item: "My pleasant association with the outstanding soldier, Marshal Zhukov...
...treatments seem to have made no difference to Hewitt, now 30, and neither do efforts to retrain him. He can remember nothing of the recent past, but "his recall of the ancient material learned during his youth is phenomenal." He can sing ballads popular 20 years ago, recite the Gettysburg Address, play checkers and do grade-school arithmetic. He can name the first but not the present President of the U.S. Hewitt's overall I.Q. has gone up from 52 after the injury to 71, but nearly all the gain is from improvement in his control of movements...
...Pennsylvania's marginal 19th District (York, Gettysburg), George F. Kennan, onetime (1952) U. S. Ambassador to Russia, "Mr. X" of the Truman State Department's foreign policy planning and author of the doctrine of containment of World Communism, filed as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Present occupant of the seat: Freshman Republican Representative S. Walter Stauffer of York...
...group of prominent businessmen last summer thought of a fine birthday present for President Eisenhower: they wanted to fix over a room in his Gettysburg farmhouse and fill it with Pennsylvania Dutch antiques. But when the group presented the idea to Mamie, she promptly vetoed it. The President, said she, already owned "too many things." Why not set up a scholarship in his name...
...propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern captain that his speech at Gettysburg was not, after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes of New Orleans' George W. Cable in Madame Delphine: "She was just passing 17-that beautiful year when the heart of the maiden still beats...