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...human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen. Whit man brought them oranges, lemons and sugar for lemonade; tobacco, and money...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...
Defeat at Gettysburg. In Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
Like the Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the Supreme Court's "ringing polysyllables"* should go down in history. It is the fourth great statement of the fundamentals of democracy, and like the other three, every child should memorize it so that when he grows up he will learn to love...
...Universal) is Abbott & Costello's eleventh time around in the movies. There is every indication from most audiences that sheer, unspecialized hokum continues to have a power of appeal rivaling that of Mozart or the Gettysburg Address...