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Brant concedes all this. In rebuttal, he argues that Madison deserved credit for the victory because he pushed through the construction of the heavily armored ships that won the battles on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, and backed the rise of young generals such as Winfield Scott, who finally stopped the British armies. Brant blames historians' low opinion of Madison as President on a failure to appreciate his "quiet methods" and "an underestimate of the titanic difficulties heaped on him by the refusal of New England to take part...
...Leonard Winfield Larson, 63, a short, folksy pathologist from Bismarck, N. Dak., will not lead A.M.A. down any radical paths; his denunciations of socialized medicine ring as loud as anyone's. Yet he is known in the organization for taking a step that a decade ago would have seemed unthinkable to A.M.A. After heading an investigating commission, Larson two years ago got A.M.A. to affirm the economic merits and medical quality of prepaid, closed-panel health-care plans -typically. New York's Health Insurance Plan (H.I.P...
...shores of Tripoli, but not as impressively as the Marines' Hymn implies. Eight marines helped 150 Greeks and Arabs capture the fortress city of Tripoli from the Barbary pirates in 1804. In the battle for the castle at Chapultepec in 1847, fewer than 200 of Winfield Scott's 7,200 troops were marines. The actual heroes of Chapultepec, moreover, were the Mexican boy cadets, Los Niños Heroes, who, with a small number of regular troops, forced the gringos to retreat three times in 24 hours, and finally died fighting...
...about sending a third rescue party. The Senator from Maine wanted the ships to be U.S.-built. The Senator from Delaware insisted that only volunteers serve in the crews. The Senator from Kansas questioned the "vast expenditure." On April 24, 1884, a rescue flotilla finally set out under Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who, 14 years later, was to destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Santiago. After a two-month voyage and a search of the coves and inlets of Baffin Bay, Schley reached Cape Sabine. Only Greely and six others, out of 25, remained alive. In memorable understatement...
Happy Daze. In Los Angeles, while circulating a petition for the draft-Stevenson drive, Paul E. Winfield was told enthusiastically by an elderly signer, "I voted for Stevenson the last two times, and things have been going so well I'm going to vote for him again...