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...only schoolbook that ever baffled him was Quackenbos' Principles of Rhetoric. No matter how he struggled, young Archibald Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. could not understand it. Finally one day his teacher blew up, slammed the Principles shut, threw the book at Henderson, and sent him from his classroom forever. "In Quackenbos," recalls Archibald Henderson, "I met my master...
Freeman proves, contrary to schoolbook accounts, that George didn't survey the Lord Fairfax estates at 16. He went along for the ride with young George William Fairfax (whose wife, Sally, he later fell in love with). Washington helped out but actually the two youngsters got tired of it and quit before the job was over...
...first lands him in the Army - at Valley Forge. His schoolbook hindsight of the Delaware Crossing interests General Washington profoundly. Disguised as a yokel, he also checks up on the taffy-wigged, beet-nosed Hessians in the Trenton Bierstube. By the time he faces a Hessian firing squad, the genie suddenly transplants him spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus...
That Ludendorff bridge thing (TIME, March 19): what a solid gold 23-jewel opportunity for future German schoolbook historians...
Your "At Sea, They Shot an Albatross" (TIME, March 23) is the most magnificent piece of writing of the decade. It should be placed verbatim in every schoolbook; it should be bound in every library. It should be hung on the walls of U.S.O. "huts," and recruiting centers. It makes my eyes smart with pride that I have nationality in common with Pilot Dixon. . . . My god, what...