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...through the night they wander, Lear and his fool. Growing and crackling of thunder shakes the earth, and lightening glares...
...fancies himself in ancient Attica where it is spring now and the Gods are smiling on humanity. Dinoysus, sitting at Zeus' table, looks down with special pleasure, for this is the time of the spring festival in his honor. Prancing horses and gleaming cars fill Athens as the rich thunder by in their burnished armor and waving plumes. Merchants and students, soldiers and athletes and maidens tossing flower-petals crowd the streets. The dry air is full of sunshine and the smell of flowers and wine-brimming libations to the god Dionysus...
Three weeks later the U.S.S. Akron fell into the Atlantic off the New Jersey coast during a violent thunder storm (TIME, April 10, 1933). With her perished Admiral Moffett and 72 others. Sole surviving officer was Lieut. Commander Wiley who could no more account for the loss of the Akron then than he could last week for the loss of her sister ship in the Pacific...
...their State's biggest business. It was the Texas delegation that succeeded in shelving the toothy Thomas-Disney oil control bill in the last session of Congress. Even last week Texas' Congressman Sam Rayburn, who chairmans the powerful House Interstate Commerce Committee, took time out to thunder: "I will not vote to make one man dictator of the third largest industry...
...final scene, with lights out and the Mantee gang exchanging gunfire with the deputies outside while Alan and Gabrielle lie on the floor with their arms around each other, should raise audiences' hackles higher than anything on the Manhattan stage since the Group Theatre began producing its blood-&-thunder Red melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know...