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...lucky too when Griffith handed him over to the writer-director team of Anita Loos and John Emerson, who established his film character: half Tom Sawyer, half Teddy Roosevelt. They also devised the set pieces that made his name--as in the climax to the delightful The Matrimaniac (1916): his fiance is locked in a hotel room; the preacher is in jail; the police have chased Doug up a telephone pole; so he tightrope-walks on the telephone wires, persuades a lineman to plug in a conference call to the jail and the hotel, and voila, they're married...
...disasters of the 1930s strike most observers as inadequate. "We've looked at the stats back to 100 years ago," says Erik Ness, director of communications at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, "and there was more rain during the Dust Bowl than they are getting in Roosevelt County [on the state's eastern plains...
...chair and secretary of the group, Tweed Roosevelt '64 (great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who donated the antler chandeliers which have illuminated the Great Hall for decades) and H.A. Crosby Forbes '50, the commit- tee members wrote over 100 letters to President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles and Director of Planning for FAS Philip J. Parsons...
...advised students at the June 1939 Commencement to "neglect the tumult of the moment" would later send a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 after the evacuation at Dunkirk in May 1940 stating, "I believe the United States should take every action possible to ensure the defeat of Hitler...
This group included such men as Time and Life publisher Henry Luce, future Secretary of State Dean Acheson, future head of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles, columnist Joseph Alsop and others who felt the need to prod the Roosevelt administration toward greater support for the Allies...