February 1976

Volume 27 , Issue 2
February 1976

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Prelude To War:
James L. Haley

BEFORE THE COLORS FADE

Profile of a Soldier: Matthew B. Ridgway
Robert C. Alberts

I REMEMBER

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A Black Sharecropper’s Story

Features

Postscripts To History
The Battle Of Lake Erie

"With half the western world at stake, See Perry on the middle lake.” —Nineteenth-century ballad

Richard F. Snow
The Story Of The Century
David Davidson
Johns Hopkins

HOW A FARSIGHTED QUAKER MERCHANT AND FOUR GREAT DOCTORS BROUGHT FORTH, WITH MADDENING SLOWNESS, ONE OF THE FINEST MEDICAL CENTERS IN THE WORLD

Caroline Jones
Men of the Revolution: 16. Daniel Morgan
Richard M. Ketchum
Mallet, Chisel, And Curls

Vinnie Ream sculptured Lincoln while she was still a teen-ager

Lee Roderick
The Don Quixote Of Opera

No other impresario ever matched the record of the indomitable Max Maretzek in bringing new works and new stars to America

Harold C. Schonberg
Artists Of The Santa Fe
Profile of a Soldier: Matthew B. Ridgway

Ridgeway commanded the 82nd Airborne in World War II, became Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and Army Chief of Staff, and played important roles in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Robert C. Alberts
Gen. Ridgway: "War is the Ultimate Tragedy of Mankind"
Gen. Matthew Ridgway

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