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Chris Evert and company are getting the tennis world to equalize the tournament prizes for men and women. Judy Rankin and company are working on prize equalization in the golf world. Women's basketball has an equally promising future...
...also missed Kenny Rankin, because I left him out of last week's column, because I felt like...
REBELS AND REDCOATS by Hugh Rankin and George Scheer. 639 pages. Mentor Books. $2.50. This is the one book to have if you're having only one. The authors have rifled the diaries, journals, letters and reports of hundreds of participants and woven them into a totally absorbing, seamless war narrative that a novelist might envy. The voices range from Joseph Plumb Martin, an irrepressible private ("The grapeshot and langrage flew merrily") to General Washington, who was often prey to justifiable private gloom. (All might be well, he reflected in 1776, if his soldiers "would behave with tolerable resolution...
Scheer and Rankin's historic bridgework is as skilled as their choice of quotations. Recollected events and human voices carry the reader from the first shots (and words) at Lexington in 1775 to a chorus-like finale at Yorktown. Flashes of humor and high spirits lighten the hardships along the way. Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have...
...movements. First came "New Side" Presbyterians, preaching the "new birth," a life-changing experience of salvation. Then the Baptists, with a similar message. Now come the Methodists -not a new denomination at this point but an order of Anglican laymen who preach the revivalist Gospel and establish prayer cells. Rankin, who arrived from England in 1773, is their current American leader. Although some see them as "a church within a church," the Methodists profess religious loyalty to the Church of England. In fact, one hot-head was ejected from a Methodist society recently for usurping the clergy's role...