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...this kind of terrain it is almost impossible to achieve a pursuit of destruction without cavalry which can advance swiftly across country in a pursuit of interception as achieved by Field Marshal Lord Allenby [in the 1917-18 Palestine campaign] . . . General Lucian Truscott [commander, 3rd Infantry Division, Italian campaign] stated that with cavalry for pursuit, he believed he could have achieved [a faster] victory in Italy . . . The late General Patton said, "In almost any conceivable theater of operations, situations arise where the presence of horse cavalry, in a ratio of a division to an army, will be of vital moment...
...speeches will come after an alumni luncheon in the Yard. At 1:45 p.m. a procession of alumni, headed by Joseph W. Lund, Chief Marshal of Alumni, will pass in front of dignitaries assembled on the front steps of Widener Library and take seats in Tercententry Theatre...
...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...
...Marshal Douglas rescues a salty old rustler (Walter Brennan) from being lynched as a murderer, and starts back with him to distant Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt...
...hero still has enough energy to reach town, discover the real murderer, shoot it out with him, lick his neurosis, win the girl. Being only human, audiences are likely to fatigue more readily than Marshal Douglas...