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...history of the weapons of war is a constant struggle between offensive and defensive weapons. At present airplanes dominate defensive measures of all kinds. But Brig. Gen. Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commandant of the 2nd Coast Artillery District and Pershing's Chief of Staff, announces an unpleasant form of retaliation. This will take the form of an anti-aircraft gun firing a 250-pound shell of high explosive. No direct hit will be required. Detonation will disturb an immense volume of air, wrecking any airplane in the vicinity...
Strangers of the Night. Those who trot consistently at the heels of the drama will recall this play as Captain Applejack. It is something of a double exposure-a drawing room comedy with the death's-head flag of a pirate brig fluttering steadily in the background. In the course of an evening when the country house of Ambrose Applejohn is to be robbed of a certain hidden treasure, he falls asleep and dreams himself his bloody ancestor, the pirate, Captain Applejack. Awakened, he finds the memories have metamorphosed his mind. From a sleepy country gentleman he turns savage...
...nowhere Adam Trent arrives on board the pirate brig. Immediately preceding him comes Hilda Borner, beautiful maiden from a captured schooner in the time honored guise for maidens aboard pirate brig-cabin boy's gear. Promptly Trent subdues the crew. Promptly Trent falls in love with her. Promptly the crew, too, discover her sex. There follow ominous and entertaining rattles of the daggers of romantic drama...
...Brig. Gen. J. H. Sherburne '99 with Capt. A. O'Keefe '05 and Lieut. C. L. Lanigan '10 as members of his staff commanded the 51st Artillery Brigade, while Lieut. Col. F. E. Jones, M.D. '97 led the 101st Sanitary Train. In command also was Co. E. L. Logan '98 of the 101st Infantry and Col. R. E. Goodwin '01 of the 101st Field Artillery. Majors E. F. Fish '05, R. O. Swain '01 and J. F. Osborn '96 acted, as battalion commanders. Other men to march were Major J. Brown '10 and Lieut. A. MacDonald '10 both...
...Naturally, I was more acquainted with the men in the higher commands of the 26th Division. Many were Harvard men. Brig. Gen. Sherman was one of them. He went across as a Colonel, was then promoted to the command of the Brigade Artillery of the 92nd Division, fought at Toul and Verdun, and, after the armistice was signed, was transferred to the 26th Division. He was one of three National Guard Colonel's to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General during the war. Then there is Col. Richard K. Hale '02, now Chief of Staff of the Yankee...