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...Senator Varro, once of Rome, had thought it best to exile himself in Syria after the death of his friend and protector, the Emperor Nero. Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...
Arms for Venus (by Randolph Carter; Mary Hone, producer), elaborated from a tale by Petronius, deals with certain aspects of human frailty in the Rome of Emperor Nero's time. This provides Author Carter, who wrote the play while studying for a graduate degree at Harvard, with an opportunity to mix Roman and Christian mythology in such oaths as "I'll be Jove-damned...
Among Mr. Brisbane's likes were Mussolini, Calvin Coolidge, big families, aviation, and the Emperor Nero, who he vowed was history's most admirable, character. Mr. Brisbane was fond of describing executions, took a detailed and almost professional interest in Nazi decapitations, seemed to derive great satisfaction from the thoroughness with which the Italians mopped up Ethiopia. Some people & things of which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually...
...John L. Lewis is supposed to have jested: "Why shouldn't he belong to the musicians' union? Didn't Nero fiddle while Rome burned...
Other coaches are: Adams, Donald L. Hassenfratz 3L; Dudley, Frederick W. Rys 2G.B.; Dunster, Pierce A. Hammond, Jr., 3L; Eliot, Charles R. Hulsart, Jr., 3L; Leverett, Ralph D. Semerad 2L; Lowell, William Gibbs 1G.B.; and Winthrop, William C. Nero...