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Predictions of an early peace flew thick & fast last week. They seemed to be based, not on a change of attitude by the Communists, but on a change of course by the U.N. In retrospect, Matt Ridgway's generals and admirals seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that only "inexorable military pressure" would drive the Reds to make peace. They had tied themselves in knots trying to avoid giving the enemy what they scathingly called a "de facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire...
Roosevelt in Retrospect was a fast, typical John Gunther look at F.D.R.; Louis Fischer looked longer at Gandhi but had more trouble trying to tell what he thought he saw, in his slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly's scholarly and readable Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings; another was Yale Professor Roland Bainton's exhaustive life of Protestant Martin Luther, Here I Stand. Louise Hall Tharp, a writing housewife, dared to try a delicate job and brought it off successfully in a spirited three-woman...
...Retrospect. So far, only the New York Giants have been able to stop Graham, Motley & Co., and the Giants have done it twice, 6-0 and 17-13. Fundamentally, Giant Coach Steve Owen managed this feat by getting his linemen to charge the Browns so furiously that it kept the timing of the Browns' offense off balance. Such tactics had the desired effect, but proved costly in retrospect. The Giants themselves were so bruised that four players had to be sent to the hospital, and right after the victories over Cleveland they dropped two out of three games...
...said one citizen, "he's just another squirrel in the Forest Theater. Why don't they leave him alone?" That is what the council decided last week to do. "Why," said the mayor's wife in retrospect, "Duxbury was just one of those harmless souls who's neither a Democrat nor a Republican...
Asked where the next Communist outbreak might be expected, Hopper replied that it would "probably come where it is least expected by the West." He said the Korean show was a complete surprise at the time, though is retrospect it should have been obvious. The next move might be similar.M-1