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Beside the Battle of 1941, that of Actium (31 B.C.) in which Antony tried to stave off the one-man dictatorship of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...
...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who was as positive as Mr. Kennedy was evasive. With little to say about the Lend-Lease Bill outside of flatly opposing it, he had much to say about peace and isolation. He saw little danger of a successful invasion of the U. S., if the country were protected by 10,000 modern planes in service, with another 10,000 replacements and trainer planes in reserve. The Colonel believed that the Western Hemisphere could be economically independent. As for his sympathies: "I prefer to see neither side win. I prefer a negotiated peace...
...absence of U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who was prevented by illness from attending both the Inaugural and the Ames Competition, Chief Justice Fred T. Field of the Massachusetts Supreme Court was on the bench. Sitting with him were Judges Augustus N. Hand '90 and Armistead M. Doble of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Sitting with Justice Douglas will be Judge Augustus N. Hand, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Armistead M. Dobie, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...
Ellis Robinson as Augustus Billings (who spends the whole night trying to get out of a scrape with a little French girl) gets in a neat piece of acting. Others like the villain Johnson, played by Richard Wiechmann, mother-in-law Charlotte Armstrong or demure Claire Johnston have little chance at anything but a blush or a shrick. But they and the whole cast, in fact, can do this...