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...French revolutions. At one time, Frederick of Prussia seated him at dinner next to the defeated Cornwallis. Nothing is recorded of the civilities between these former antagonists (Yorktown), but an exchange between the King and the Frenchman...
...MITCHELL Captain, U.S. Navy Yorktown...
...flag-waving salute to America past and present. Springtime was also bedeviled by flubs, as when the actor playing George Washington proudly announced the surrender of "Cromwell'' at Yorktown. For music lovers willing to ignore the script, there was some reward in the singing of Patrice Munsel and Rise Stevens and in Paul Whiteman's conducting of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
...cover art (printed in Europe) includes reproductions of works by famed artists, e.g., Michelangelo's David emblazons the Israel Philharmonic albums, Picasso's Nature morte a la tete antique is on Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, an old print of French General Rochambeau with Washington at Yorktown goes with the second volume by the Garde Republicaine Band...
...linen campaign tent, sleeping shelter of General George Washington when he was in the field, was acquired for $10,000 (part of it donated anonymously to the U.S.) by the National Park Service, which will pitch it in a historical park in Yorktown, Va. The sellers: four Virginia ladies, all heiresses of General Robert E. Lee. In the line of inheritance, the old tent went first to Washington's widow Martha, later to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, and from him to his daughter Mary Anne Custis Lee, wife of the great Confederate commander...