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...SHERMAN: FIGHTING PROPHET-Lloyd Lewis-Harcourt, Brace...
...Sherman never said, "War is hell." What he did say and what he always thought was: "War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." Hard-headed soldier, he defined military fame: "To be killed on the field of battle and have our names spelled wrong in the newspapers." Like his good friend Ulysses Simpson Grant a failure in civil life. William Tecumseh Sherman thrived on civil war. Like the old soldier in the song, he "simply faded away" (it took him 25 years) into the most sought-after speaker and diner-out of his generation...
Karl Adams, of Boston, Bradford Keyser Bachrach, of West Newton, Henry Hamilton Bissell, of Cambridge, Carl James Fleming, Jr., of Norfolk, Nebraska, Roger Sanderson Hewlett, of Cedarhurst, Long Island, New York, Edward Hutchins Hickey, of Boston, Sherman Morss, of Boston, Albert Pratt, of Boston, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr., of Cambridge, David Norton Yerkes, of New Haven, Connecticut...
...John. Jr. 60 Howard Lapsley 21 FOR IVY ORATOR *Stephen Henry Stackpole 142 Stuart Scott, Jr. 100 Jerrold Harold Ruskin 85 Alfred Kidder, II 65 FOR POET *Robert McConnell Hatch 189 Roland Maycock 110 William Stephen Thomas 67 FOR ODIST *Elliott Warren Robbins 135 Richard Hiller Amberg 90 Sherman Edgar Conrad, Jr. 85 Henry Caraway Hatfield 73 FOR CHORISTER *James Lyons Hutter, Jr. 115 Joseph Manton Bradley 95 Hugh King McElheny 91 George Hawkins Acheson...
...being a real backstage power in shaping legislation. The nearest Vice President Curtis ever came to influencing public affairs was when his vote broke a tie on tariff flexibility. Some day in the Senate corridor his marble bust will take its place along with those of James Sherman, Charles Fairbanks, Garret Hobart, Levi P. Morton, Adlai E. Stevenson and other substitutes who never got into the great game of running the country...