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...meet with the general in chief, Winfield Scott, who was planning a Mexican expedition and wanted to use some of Taylor's troops. In retaliation, Scott stripped Taylor of most of his command. With his remaining troops, Taylor went on. to win a resounding victory at Buena Vista in 1847. Two years later, he was in the White House...
...Prospect Before Us is the latest stage on Dos Passes' long road back. It is a calm, wide, sometimes rather hazy look at the democratic vista from where Dos Passos now stands, at a position close to that of the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-champion of the individual, implacable foe of organized Bigness. The book presents-as an imaginary series of movie-illustrated lectures followed by questions from the audiences-a series of reports on countries Dos Passos has visited recently (Britain, Argentina, Chile) and on recent happenings in the U.S. The lecturer-audience exchanges, which seem...
Arizona: Thomas T. Clark, Jr. '41; 40 Caile Clara Vista, Tucson...
...fire set off two investigations: one to find who started it, the other to investigate Belle-Vista's ideas of hospital care, for which it charged $40 to $60 a week per patient. The Pennsylvania Welfare Department reported that, repeatedly for 13 years, it had warned the sanatorium's owner, 48-year-old Roland L. Randal, to remove the shackles and other restraints. A township marshal said that two months ago he had discovered that the sanatorium had no fire-alarm system, no sprinkler system, and its fire extinguishers were empty...
...rescued inmates was Nicholas A. Verna Jr., an antiaircraftman at Salerno beachhead, who had got combat decorations and a head wound in World War II and returned to civilian life with a case of pyromania. With nine cases of arson on his record, Verna had been confined to Belle-Vista by the Veterans Administration. Confronted by investigators, Verna confessed that he had wandered into the basement and set fire to a towel near a laundry chute. "I got a sick feeling and had to do something," he explained. He was, said investigators, a "hero arsonist," one who likes...