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...March 1931, during a radio broadcast on his 90th birthday, Justice Holmes quoted a line from Latin Poet Virgil: "Death plucks my ear and says, Live-I am coming." Two years before Holmes's death newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, paying a social call, found the Justice reading Plato. Asked President Roosevelt: "Why do you read Plato, Mr. Justice?" Said Justice Holmes: "To improve my mind, Mr. President...
...idea of the history came to husky-voiced, 52-year-old Sylvan Hoffman, Manhattan business magazines publisher (Shipping Management, American Roofer, Beach and Pool, Black Fox Magazine}, when he saw a parade of historic headlines in the New York Times 's 90th anniversary edition in 1941. Onetime Texas reporter, not a college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because...
After the fall of Tunis, only the justly famous 90th Light Infantry Division and the 164th Panzer Grenadiers continued to fight in the manner we expected from an army. The 90th, which had been the backbone of the Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army...
These include the founding of the Alumni Directory, Alumni Bulletin, and University Gazette and it was he who was responsible for the staging of the 90th birthday celebration of President Eliot and for directing the Tercentenary festivities...
Rommel was trying to keep the nucleus of an army intact, trying to hold together what was left of his once superb 15th and 21st Armored and 90th Light Motorized Divisions. Somewhere, perhaps at Matrûh, perhaps at Hellfire Pass, he might be able to make a stand. But faster than Rommel's flight was the R.A.F...