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HELEN DORTCH LONGSTREET Gettysburg...
...recalling one of the most controversial episodes in one of the world's most controversial battles, TIME meant no smirch. Authorities who supported TIME'S position include Longstreet's own biographers, Eckenrode & Conrad, Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, the Dictionary of American Biography. Whether the criticism of Longstreet is just or not, Longstreet at Gettysburg has been for years a classic U.S. symbol of the costliness of delay...
LAST MAN AROUND THE WORLD-Stephen Longstreet-Random House...
...money he made from his first novel, Decade (TIME, March 4, 1940), Stephen Longstreet shipped on a de luxe world cruise. It turned out to be the last trip of that kind before the world ended. Out of the journals of this voyage he has made a book incomparably better than Decade, and vastly entertaining. Despite streaks of third-hand Times Square wit and Ben Hechtish newspapermannerisms, it suggests that Longstreet may soon be one of the most readable of U.S. writers...
...typical world-cruise crowd-"schoolteachers and retired white-collar workers and chain-store sell-outs ... [their] ideas pure Technicolor." There were also remittance-men, wanderers and drunks: "nice people . . . rich in leisure, meditation and gamy breaths" (see cut, p. 91; the drawings are Longstreet's). There was a fine old fellow whom he calls Proust's Pal (he had known Marcel quite well) who talked old-fashioned purple epigrams about books, homosexuality and English cooking. There were also Pamela Cohn, who thought of joining the Catholic Church but passed it up on a chance to meet Aldous Huxley...