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Herbert disclaims any intention of being "narrowly and offensively British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...
...direct charge of this training is Chief Specialist Frank Patrick, former All-American fullback at Pitt. A regular in 1935, 1936, and 1937, Patrick hit the high point in his collegiate career by scoring two of the three touchdowns in Pittsburg's 21 to 0 victory over Washington in the '37 Rose Bowl game...
London of the Bank Holiday, Whitmonday, while a gusty wind blew the cold rain down Downing Street. The next day the formal signing, with Churchill's gold-bound pen, took place in Eden's red-leather-chaired room under a bust of the younger Pitt...
...think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would not attend to the most pressing necessities of nature unless he could give a reason for it' "); Charles James Fox ("the most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other men's in dreams"); Defoe ("Defoe was less...
...spot to celebrate the departure of the English from the harbor. In 1784, all other American troops were discharged from service, and Battery D, then popularly known as the 5th Field Artillery, made up the whole U.S. Army. They kept the military tradition alive at West Point and Fort Pitt...