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Washington & Lee. Readers of the near-reverent R. E. Lee will learn with surprise that Freeman found Washington "a more interesting young man to study" than Lee.
"Washington has not replaced Lee in my affection, but he has rivaled him in my respect," said Dr. Freeman last week. "After you have spent 20 years in the company of a great man [Lee] you get ideas of what an historical personage ought to be, and you can't keep the company of ordinary men after that."
* Majority stockholders: Publisher David Tennant Bryan and his family, who also control Richmond's only other paper, the morning Times-Dispatch. Freeman's opposite number on the Times-Dispatch is famed Southern Editor Virginius Dabney.
* Freeman purposely finished it on Lee's birthday, Jan. 19.