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...Gettysburg for Shoes. Brigadier General Johnston Pettigrew led the way to Gettysburg because he had heard that he could get shoes for his men there. Major General Harry Heth, his divisional commander, remained .in nearby Cashtown. He wanted...
...years ago in Decatur, Tex., Joseph Fort Newton was brought up a Baptist. At Louisville's Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he rebelled against the dogma that there had been an unbroken line of Baptists from apostolic times to the present. The Seminary's president, Dr. William Heth Whitsitt also rebelled and was deemed a heretic. Student Newton spent one more year as a Baptist, then became an independent. In 1916 he was called to the famed City Temple ("Cathedral of Non-Conformity") in London. In three years he went through 28 air raids, preached many a forthright liberal...
...chapters devoted to Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb. The reviewer wonders how many readers shared his own ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny Lind is well worth reading...
...Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas T. Barnum before, aged 25, he bought "161-year-old" Joyce Heth, "George Washington's nurse," and turned showman. Purloining a sheaf of his father's sermons, the notorious Stephen Burroughs tramped to one empty pulpit after another...
...second movement, "Joice Heth ? 161-year-old Negress," was being played. That swathing sound in the woodwinds suggested her boast, capitalized by Barnum for 25c admission, that she was first to swathe George Washington at birth. Rather an indecent theme?like all operas ? but a good deal of the piece seemed to be built around a Negro spiritual...