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Milestones are milestones, but this is incredible. Confederate General James Longstreet must have been a true cradle robber to leave a widow [May 11] who lived to see the war centennial...
...Longstreet married Helen Dortch in 1897, when he was 76 and she was 34. They met at Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., where she was a classmate of his daughter's. The General died in 1904, and his widow survived him by 58 years...
Died. Helen Dortch Longstreet. 99, spry widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, a Georgia belle who at 80 became a World War II "Riveting Rosie"; of a heart attack; in Georgia...
With the "editorial assistance" of prolific Stephen (High Button Shoes) Longstreet, Mae makes a determined effort at total autobiography. The list of her male conquests seems to stretch to infinity: lawyers, politicians, theatrical agents, Wall Street brokers, film magnates, judges, operatic tenors, Mexican wrestlers, French importers, chorus boys, casual diners in a restaurant. Readers may get the impression that lovers lurk under every bed, in every closet, behind every curtain. Some of them showered Mae with diamonds, emeralds and furs. Others gave more of themselves. Of a fellow named Ted, Mae sighs: "I had experienced other men who performed...
Novelist-Playwright Longstreet, 51 (The Pedlocks, High Button Shoes), was a youthful art student in Paris, but this hardly qualifies him to write about the titan of the century. The morning meditations and night thoughts attributed to Picasso (called Julio Navarro in the book) are the cliches of art; his views on life and love are similarly copybook. And the speeches put in Picasso's mouth ("Balbac, I've got it! A whole new approach to painting!") often make him sound like a U.S. adman in the throes of a new toothpaste campaign...