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Hero-narrator is Claudius himself, least considered member of that Imperial family whose fine flower was Augustus, first Emperor of Rome. Born prematurely, and afflicted all his life with a limp, a stammer and a sense of humor. Claudius lived to thank his stars that he was not a conspicuous member of his clan. His grandmother Livia, Augustus' wife, was a woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal...
Williams' retiring President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President, was teaching politics at Princeton when news of his Williams appointment reached him in 1908. Tyler Dennett was also teaching politics at Princeton when news of his Williams appointment reached him last week...
Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...
...Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block which pivots open to a fine view of the Mediterranean and the road to Monte Carlo. Such relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave the keys ceremoniously to French officials. In his good Yankee accent, he declared: ''The Trophy of the Alps represents . . . the magnificent and generous ideal of an ancient civilization . . . and the Pax Romana, which gave three centuries of world peace and prosperity. May they...
...them under the title Quatrains for My Daughter* she remarked: "The stuff of poetry is happy memories in the heart." Last week three new poems by Mrs. Morrow appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. They revealed unhappy memories in the heart, memories of March 1931 when her grandson Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped and murdered. Excerpts...