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...Dependable General, or if possible several of them, would enable Lee to carry out his careful and tactful plans. One man who had everyone's confidence was James ("Old Pete") Longstreet. In the retreat on the James peninsula, Longstreet had capably fought a rear-guard action for Johnston, complacently reporting: "My part in the battle was comparatively simple and easy, that of placing the troops in proper positions at proper times." It was a rare achievement...
...secret of Longstreet's power, says Freeman, was "his incredible nervous control." A broad-shouldered man with cold grey-blue eyes and a thick beard, Longstreet once told another officer: "I never felt fatigue in my life." He kept discipline among his troops and clear understandings with his subordinates. A private grief, the death of three of his children, left him a somber man and a complete soldier...
David Ormsbee is a new name in U.S. fiction, but he is not. As Henri Weiner and Paul Haggard he has written detective stories. As Stephen Longstreet he has written an amusing travelogue (Last Man Around the World, TIME, Sept...
Novelist Stephen Longstreet has a grudge against lawyers and wrote The Gay Sisters to say so. In his novel the lawyers made off with most of the sisters' estate. Warner Bros., with no grudge at all against lawyers, are constrained to angle the picture's villainies some other way. They do it by suggesting that there is something vaguely unholy about owning real estate. The result is a picture whose ponderous pointlessness may well have been foreseen by prescient Miss Stanwyck on the first day's shooting. Said she to Cinemactor Brent, as the cameras prepared...
...STEPHEN LONGSTREET...