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Britain's bodkin-tongued, America-baiting Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford,* 52, was induced to refight the Revolutionary War by the New York Herald Tribune's Paris Postscripter Art Buchwald. Asked what American she dislikes most, gentle Nancy, whose foot has never touched U.S. soil, replied: "Abraham Lincoln. I detest Abraham Lincoln. When I read the book The Day Lincoln Was Shot, I was so afraid he would go to the wrong theater. What was the name of that beautiful man who shot him?" "John Wilkes Booth." "Yes, I liked him very much!" Does Nancy like...
...Cross. Part of his subsequent appeal to the British electorate stems from Eden's status as one of "the lost generation"-those gallant young schoolboys whom fate and the nostalgic poetry of Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen transformed into tragic legend. Years later, in Berlin, Eden was to refight the grim Battle of the Somme on the back of a menu provided by an Austrian-born corporal named Hitler, who had served opposite Eden's outfit...
...Shane," with Alan Ladd as the mysterious hero from out of the night, is several cuts above most other westerns. The brightest spot is a violently refight scene which has punch even in 3-D. Jean Arthur and Van Hefliu play man-and-wife. Their son, Brandon do Wilde, has the distinction of being one of the few non-objectional movie juvonilee. At the Greenwich...
Sometimes it was wonderful. There was Paris after World War I, when "everyone" came to the Eisenhowers' apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil to have a drink, sing old songs, laugh, and refight the war, and when the nearby Seine bridge was known as "Pont Mamie." But there was also Panama in 1922. Mamie had just lost her three-year-old son, "Little Icky," and was expecting her second. She found herself living amid the damp, stifling tropical heat in an ancient and stilt-supported house. There were bats in the rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks...
...witty and clear-eyed Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln (just re-issued by World; $5). What Scholar Williams has done, with fresher materials at his disposal, is to chink in the gaps, make the story more watertight. In Lincoln and His Generals, Williams does not refight the Civil War any more than he has to to make his point. The assumption that his readers know enough history to orient themselves will please Civil War buffs, even if it leaves some of the B-o-M's lady amateurs calling for compasses...