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Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio). The eye glides like a skiff across the black, lurching waters of a New England harbor. The sound track blares the black, lurching music of the chantey, Shenandoah. And on the screen the dreadful, faintly ludicrous enginery of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest lurches, and begins...
Hearts and Information. Born of good family in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Belle Boyd made her debut in Washington society at 16. Next year the Civil War began. A bright, black-eyed, self-reliant girl with a figure that North & South agreed was perfect, Belle was no camp follower. She may or may not have won the hearts of some Union officers, but Author Sigaud is sure she was not, as her critics have asserted, a prostitute. She was a spy, attached to the Intelligence section of the Confederate Army, engaged primarily in collecting information about the movements...
...yards away and bullets cut her clothing. The information she got to headquarters was invaluable. There were only 1,000 Union troops in Front Royal itself. Assaulted, they lost $300,000 worth of stores they did not have time to burn, also failed to burn the bridge over the Shenandoah. The road to Washington was open, and only the delay of the Confederate cavalry saved Banks's army...
Johnston seemed relieved of bedevilment when 1) Confederate batteries unexpectedly stopped Union forces moving up the James, 2) "Stonewall" Jackson whipped the Unionists in the Shenandoah. Late in May, in a countryside boggy from deluge, Johnston's great moment came: he attacked at Seven Pines. In reporting this totally erratic action, Dowlas Freeman reproduces the strain of a day from which one Confederate general retired physically paralyzed, not from fear but from sheer confusion. Johnston's plan as ususal was good; his orders were, as usual, not clear or explicit enough. McClellan had been beaten, but Johnston...
Thrice-burnt by its disastrous experiences with the Shenandoah, .the Macon, the Akron, the U.S. Navy has dreaded lighter-than-air craft. Nevertheless, a little group of enthusiasts, led by Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, plugged persistently for a whopping airship program. The new blimp squadrons are the first reward of their efforts...