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This book takes General Washington from his triumphal return to planter's life at Mount Vernon in 1783 to his 61st birthday and the end of his first term as President in early 1793. Long established as first in war biography, Historian Freeman marshals his facts as massively and meticulously as ever in his first study of the mature Washington in peacetime. Washington shines clearly in the hearts of his countrymen as he moves north through a veritable tunnel of rustic triumphal arches to take his first presidential oath at New York City's Federal Hall. By this...
Sponsored by two Paris newspapers, Parisien Libéré and L'Equipe, the 51-year-old classic took an anxious four months of preparation. At every stop on the route, Advanceman Elie Wermelinger, onetime Ivory Coast banana planter, had to prepare food and lodging for no competitors, plus an army of 1,400 managers, trainers, handlers, masseurs, timekeepers, mechanics and assorted camp followers. Bawling, cursing and exhorting, Wermelinger careened across France, waging a one-man war to bring temporary order out of wild, Gallic confusion...
...firm of Pfister and Sigg. Thirteen years later the company became Pfister & Duttweiler. But Dutti's main career of cutting prices-and conventional corners -began in 1925. Just back from several years as a coffee-and sugar-plantation owner in Brazil, Duttweiler was shocked to discover that a planter netted less for his efforts in raising coffee than the grocer who merely handed it over the counter. To remedy that, Duttweiler invested his savings of $25,000 in five model T Ford trucks and a stock of rice, flour, sugar and other staples, sent the trucks through the streets...
...relations between the main characters are finely graded, and call on the best powers of the actors to express. Dana Andrews responds with his strongest performance in several years. Peter Finch not only fits without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...
...routine as it is, Beachhead is fairly exciting stuff. Tony Curtis and Frank Lovejoy are sent ashore on a Japanese-held island to risk their leathernecks in a pre-invasion reconnaissance. Then soldiering gives way to smooching when Tony finds Mary Murphy, the daughter of a French planter, in her jungle hideaway. The enemy, however, keeps the lovebirds, as well as the action, on the wing through the full-colored, gorgeous jungle on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, where Beachhead was filmed...