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...League of Frightened Men (Columbia) : Walter Connolly as Detective Nero Wolfe solving a crime that involves a hazing at Harvard, the mysterious death of one of the hazers 19 years later...
...right way." And to those who think Germans are happy, Author Feuchtwanger has this to say: "A stranger visiting Samosata or Edessa would never have thought that the country was in a state of unrest. He would have had the impression that the people were quite satisfied with Nero's rule and quite happy under...
Varro was patron to the son of one of his freed slaves, Terence, a potter by trade but an actor by inclination, who so strongly resembled the late Nero that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew...
...scheme worked smoothly. Rumors of Nero's reappearance spread just like hornets, stung awake the disaffection already smoldering under Cejonius' inept rule. Varro, who had craftily let some bordering native princes in on his secret, withdrew from Cejonius' jurisdiction and watched the Roman frontier go up in flames. A few hints to Protege Terence had been enough to set him practicing Nero's every remembered gesture. Soon he was fit to be seen by everybody but his wife, who thought he had gone crazy. For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think...
...Roman Governor, now thoroughly alarmed, waited watchfully. "Nero's" rule, at first wildly popular, grew into hated tyranny as "Nero's" hangers-on, whom Varro found it harder & harder to control, made hay by killing and confiscating right & left. By the time Cejonius was removed from his post and a new Governor came out from Rome with enough troops to stamp out the rebellion, "Nero's" government was collapsing from its own rottenness. Crafty Varro did not wait to gloat over Cejonius' downfall or to see what became of his puppet. He took refuge with...