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...Spirit of St. Louis (Leland Hayward-Billy Wilder; Warner). Based on Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prizewinning book (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953) -which was sold to Producer Leland Hayward and Director Billy Wilder for a share of the picture's profits-this excellent film takes as its story line the simple, glorious trajectory of the flight itself. The essential facts of Lindbergh's early life-he was the son of a well-known Minnesota Congressman, barnstormed as a boy pilot, made top of his class as an Army flying cadet, was flying the mail between St. Louis...
...Hidden River (adapted from Storm Jameson's novel by Ruth and Augustus Goetz) is a split-level kind of play. Laid in France in 1950, it is partly a mystery piece over who informed on a young Resistance fighter in World War II, partly a moral inquest into types of French behavior under the Nazis. The dead man's vengeance-crying mother will not rest till she has found his betrayer; simultaneously, the playwrights set up a kind of hearing-not just for outright heroes and traitors, but for one Frenchman with a certain tolerance of Germans during...
Died. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George ("Algie") Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, 82, onetime governor-general of South Africa (1923-30) and Canada (1940-46), last surviving brother of the late Queen Mary and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; in Kensington Palace, London. An erect, mustached ex-cavalryman (India, the Boer War, World War I) who looked and acted like the prototype of Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless...
Other speakers on the program included Dean Leighton; Henry W. Clark '23, president of the Harvard Club of Washington, and Dr. Augustus Thorndike '17, president of the Boston Harvard Club...
...physician must be given the sole responsibility in determining when an athlete is physically fit for competition and when he should be removed from a game, Dr. Augustus Thorndike'17 claimed in the current Journal of the American Medical Association...