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...build up the cavalry as a separate division of the army. Sheridan had two big jobs: policing the Shenandoah Valley and beating Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart. He cleared the Valley and on a raid behind Lee's lines Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied his men and turned a rout into victory. Sheridan's famed gallop, says Author Hergesheimer, has been grossly exaggerated: actually he went very slowly, stopping to listen, probably walked...
...walks where he lists and he talks when he lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous crowd in a country tavern will be stilled by firm knocks at the door and the cry of "King's men and the Law." Famous and awesome are the "laws of the Medes and Persians." And once on a clear, balmy night in London the Vagabond himself saw a mad wight dragged...
With Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...
Last week, Mrs. Huddleston returned to Lake Tahoe. Clad in an unbecoming one-piece bathing suit and a coating of grease, she waddled into the water at Glenbrook, Nev., at 7:45 one morning, began to swim an American crawl toward Tahoe Tavern, Calif., 16 miles away. Almost immediately, she began to encounter difficulties. The old man in her pilot boat misdirected her. A wind came up and blew her eight miles off her course. Her goggles began to leak, water to blind her. After the first eight hours, she suffered from acute nausea and pains in her arm. Twice...
...romantic novel or modern Spain, is a wandering Gypsy physician who has tramped the bleak hills of Andalusia for years healing the sick and preaching bloody revolution. He and his staff of conspirators were arrested last week just as they were planning a triumphal entrance into Seville. The tavern of the Brothers Cornelio, a notorious Syndicalist meeting place, was surrounded by artillery. Well-trained gunners blew the little bodega to bits with three-inch shells...