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Miss America Pageant (CBS, 9:30-12 midnight). The annual tense decision: it's flesh, but is it talent...
Bruce was only a traveler; Napoleon was very much more. With Napoleon, Moorehead uses what might be merely historical pageant to dramatize the impact of European technology on African barbarity. It was as a young (29) revolutionary general that Bonaparte went to Egypt. Although the outcome is known, Moorehead's superb narrative of the French adventure has the quality of suspense. Napoleon brought a small force by modern standards of mass war (36,000, including sailors), but his riflemen alone doomed the ruling cavalry aristocracy of Cairo to utter defeat. Also, he carried the future in his own baggage...
Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). With Dave Garroway as anchor man, Arlene Francis as hostess, and someone pretty as winner...
World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of Europe. It was the innocent, hideous war that ushered in the modern age. The bloody pageant had been in rehearsal for years. Never before had so many nations so thoroughly plotted the destruction of their enemies. When the fighting finally began, in the long, hot summer of 1914, the great armies moved eagerly onstage to take up their long-assigned positions. In The Guns of August, Historian Barbara W. Tuchman (The Zimmermann Telegram) tells how, in the very first month...
...Jefferson was the great champion of all that was good-democracy, social justice, and the common man. Hamilton was Jefferson's bitter antagonist. He distrusted democracy, had no time for social justice, and thought the common man to be too common to bother much about. In the great pageant surrounding the birth of the nation, Hamilton clearly played the heavy...