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...song, entitled "Lamp in The West" with music by Horatio W. Parker and words by Ella Higginson, began in this vein...
...turned out Autocrats of the Breakfast Table (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829), the dinner table (Lucius Beebe, 1927), the atomic table (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1926), and the timetable (President Walter Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad). One of its alumni, John Reed, 1910, was buried in the Kremlin; another was Horatio Alger, 1852, known to his classmates as "Holy"' ("I shall have to move," said he in his first year, "to where there is more respect for decency...
Following the careers of two gangsters from rags to riches, both pictures are in the Horatio Alger tradition. Then the camera watches while the mobsters go back to the gutter, each weighing several pounds more than he had immediately before death. Since both are rather antique, the photography, sound, and much of the acting and direction are adolescent by modern standards. It is mostly the superior villainy of Messers. Cagney and Robinson that makes the films wonderful. Cagney brushes grapefruits into his lovely breakfast partner's face--no, not Jean Harlow, he meets her later. And in addition...
...Horatio Hornblower (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Starring Michael Redgrave...
...River Valley and thus split the colonies came abruptly to grief. General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British and Hessian troops, came south from Canada almost unopposed. But General Howe, who was to go north to meet him, sailed away to take Philadelphia instead. An American army under General Horatio Gates blocked Burgoyne on high ground on the west bank of the river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared of Washington's generals,** violated Gates's cautious orders and led two attacks, the second after his jealous superior had stripped...