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...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...
There is very little that one can really say about Woolley's performance. He knows the part well-obviously, since he is the inventor of it, he plays it beautifully and with perfect shading--he ought to, for he had played it long enough. without him to play Sheridan Whiteside, it would have been complete lunacy for the HDC to attempt a production of this play. No matter how many productions of this perennial favorite you may have seen, when Woolley emits his first line, you know that the right man is in the wheelchair...
...Sheridan Downey of California...
Five Times & Out. At 7:30 on the morning of Jan. 8, 1947, three men padded up the steps of Andy Hintz's Greenwich Village apartment. Dunn was one of them. The second was Andrew ("Squint") Sheridan, his myopic triggerman, who said he had no more trouble taking a life than ordering a cup of coffee. The third was Daniel ("Danny Brooks") Gentile, a washed-up club-fighter who ran some of Dunn's bookie concessions. They got Andy Hintz coming downstairs from the third floor. Squint's gun clicked and missed. Then the Cockeye coolly pumped...
...Cockeye, Squint and Gentile were convicted of the murder a year later. For months, they sat in the death house at Sing Sing while their lawyers battled up to New York's highest court. Then Squint Sheridan sent down word that he was ready to sing. Dunn and Gentile, he swore, had had nothing to do with the killing; he alone had planned it. It had been carried out by two men, but one of them was dead now and the other was not to be found...