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...addressed to two Swedish U.N. pilots in the Congo. Major Richard Lawson made his debut as a British hero. As a backdrop for heroism, the U.N. of U Thant is not an entirely satisfactory substitute for the empire of Victoria, but the British press, starved for tales of British valor in distant places, splashed Lawson of Leopoldville all over the front pages. Henceforth, trumpeted the Daily Express, he would be "known to the world as Dick the Lionheart...
...last major Indian resistance to the advancing white man was broken. But Author Alvin Josephy Jr., a onetime associate editor of TIME and now an editor of American Heritage* is not concerned with the white man's inevitable victory but with the red man's valor in inevitable defeat. To the white pioneers, his "patriot chiefs" were hostile "bad Indians." To Josephy, they seem nine "good and brave men,'' whose profound sense of human dignity and love for their own people make them national heroes in the impartial eyes of history. Some of them were warriors...
...play is drawn from three chapters in the Book of Judges. The Israelites are in the toils of a false god, Baal, and harsh enemies, the Midianites. The Angel of the Lord (Fredric March) appears before Gideon (Douglas Campbell) and hails him as a "mighty man of valor" chosen to lead his people to victory. The comic incongruity of the choice is heightened by Gideon's initial appearance as a kind of donkeyfied village dolt. The Angel, who is, in effect, the Lord, lays down a plan by which 300 Israelites will rout and slay 120,000 Midianites...
...Hustler (20th Century-Fox), commercially speaking, is a long-shot money ball that will probably hit the public's pocket like a rocket and rack up an impressive score. Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green...
...personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England that was, the gallantry and peculiar innocent ardor, valor, of those lost, silken quivering days, and how a whole generation was cut off, sacrificed, exterminated...