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Besides Professor Morison, the members of the expedition were: his wife Captain John W. McElroy, Herbert F. Hossmer, Jr., Richard S. Colley, Dr. Clifton W. Anderson, Kenneth R. Spear and Richard Spear...
...been a patron. As a boy, vacationing from his Hell's Kitchen Manhattan neighborhood, he fought for the job of delivering butter to the great Louise Homer's country house, just for the exquisite thrill of seeing the great Homer herself. Once he paid to carry a spear in a Metropolitan mob scene. He studied at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, sang in choirs, doodled clefs & staffs on tablecloths and phone pads and dreamed of a career in music...
...unwieldy battle scenes with their elephant charges are too much like a day at the circus, but Fascist directors have lovingly perfected the technique of making killing realistic. Samples: a soldier with a sword piercing his throat, another transfixed by an arrow, an agonized, trumpeting elephant with a spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile...
...enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except for one spot on his back where a leaf stuck, and that is where Hagen's spear...
Obviously a mere whaling conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would...