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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRIUMPH IN THE WEST (438 pp.)-Arthur Bryant-Doubleday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Triumph in the West concludes Author Bryant's rationalization and happy acceptance of Alanbrooke's diaries as the handbook of Allied strategy. Bryant's pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...both times needed to come from behind to do it. The Yardlings scored three late touchdowns in mud and water at Dartmouth to win, 18 to 6, and also needed three eleventh-hour scores (thanks mainly to halfback Hobie Armstrong) to overcome a 6-0 deficit and finally triumph, 20 to 6, over Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Individual Backfield Aces Dominate Yardling Football Team's 3-3 Season | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Occasionally one senses the Faulknerian miasma of decay, of gutted ruins of people and places; but the hints are few, and the meaning of the Faulknerian tragedy--the triumph of Snopesism and vulgarity--is non-existent...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: The Long, Hot Summer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...triumph against UMass was convincing, but it was obvious that the Redmen had been highly overrated. Running without its ace, Jed Fitzgerald, the Crimson romped...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Cross Country Squad Survives Bleak Year With Hope for 1960 | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

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