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...Fault." After Pickett's charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly...
...PHILADELPHIA, Clarence E. Pickett and the American Friends Service Committee laid plans for spending the Quakers' $20,000 share of the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 10) to improve relations between Russia and the U.S.-probably by methods suggested by a recent series of Quaker-sponsored newspaper ads: immediate peace talks, strengthening of the U.N., and "a new effort to arrange the exchange of students, writers, religious leaders and industrial workers...
...China. In 1917, U.S. Quakers, unsatisfied with a purely negative form of pacifism, organized the American Friends' Service Committee to give any kind of help wherever it was needed, without consideration of politics, nationality or creed. Since 1929, the Committee has been administered by able, affable Clarence E. Pickett...
...Dodger fans that game looked like the season's Gettysburg, complete with Pickett's charge, valiant but in vain. The Dodgers swept the series, and ran their winning streak to 13 games before losing three straight to the Cubs. At week's end they were still seven games out front. (On the same day last year the Cards were 1½ games behind...
...ladies coughed politely when Dr. Tansill called Abraham Lincoln a "do-nothing" soldier, "invincible in peace and invisible in war." They looked alarmed when he began to contrast the Davis and Lincoln military careers. Suddenly his audience realized that the professor was leading them on a historical Pickett's charge...