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Trafalgar by David Howarth. 254 pages. Atheneum. $8.95. What Howarth did last year for Waterloo he has now done for Britain's most famous and decisive sea battle. The achievement is not quite so notable; yet the book is a most clear and readable account of the engagement that cost Nelson's life and destroyed Napoleon's last hope of invading Britain...
...months to come: the militant new feminists of the Women's Liberation movement, who regard themselves as one of the most discriminated-against groups in American life today. The story was written by Ruth Brine, who was valedictorian of her class at West High School in Waterloo. Iowa, a Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the literary magazine at Vassar, and took a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. "Then, as any feminist could foresee," says Ruth, "I came to work for TIME as a clip marker, one rung below a secretary." She has since become...
...fanatically fought wars and revolutions?' At the level of immediate outrage and intent, yes; in ultimate results, no. Taking a long view, FitzGibbon compares the performance of the Allied occupying powers with those of the English after the Stuart Restoration, Americans after Appomattox, and the European victors of Waterloo. In each case national character and historical tradition shaped policy. In 1660 the English Crown granted general amnesty, except for the clergymen, to all but a few of the Cromwellian regicides, although republican soldiers (allowing for technological limitations) had behaved nearly as atrociously toward the Irish as Hitler...
...handsomest and most durable of Hollywood's leading men; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Taylor broke into movies in 1934 and within three years had appeared in 15 features; his fans flocked to see him in such films as Waterloo Bridge, Bataan and Quo Vadis. In later years, Taylor won critical as well as popular acclaim for such workmanlike stints as the mental patient in 1947's High Wall. As Longtime Friend Ronald Reagan said in his eulogy: "He was more than a pretty boy, an image that embarrassed him because...
...engorged with minutiae that might better have been left in the filing cabinet. Much of it is Dun & Bradstreet; the Bouviers' commonest denominator seems to have been a preoccupation with getting and spending. Getter No. 1 was Michel, a cabinetmaker from the Rhone Valley, who fled France after Waterloo to settle in Philadelphia and accumulate a tidy fortune in real estate. Getter No. 2 was one of his sons, Michel Charles. With his brother John, he bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange right after its reorganization in 1869 and proceeded to make the most of those free...