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...Tsar, and France's Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria against Russia and Prussia. Nor did the Congress break up when Napoleon escaped from Elba. It stayed until shortly before Waterloo, until the last scrap of Napoleon's empire had been disposed...
...screw steamers which have a propeller in back only, and when the Union Steamship Co. placed their twin-screw Arahura on the run (propeller on the side also, but I hope this will not involve TIME in a nautical argument as I am no sailor), Pelorus Jack met his Waterloo. Shortly after the Arahura went on the run his dead body was picked up with a big wound in the side, the inference being that in brushing himself against the side of the ship he had run into the side propeller. I had not meant to be quite so chatty...
...Lucky Strike cigaret's radio hour, Governor Roosevelt last week broadcast to the nation his first political speech as a Presidential candidate. Excerpts: "The present condition of our national affairs is too serious to be viewed through partisan eyes for partisan purposes. . . . Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry. The present Administration in Washington has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for plans . . . that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more...
...comedy rather than to outdoor sport, and it almost always contains a murderer, a lunatic, a butler or a ghost. This time the lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...
...World's Biggest Horse" is Sillon B, 12, pure white, foaled in France, owned by C. H. Van Wickle, of Waterloo, N. Y. Weight: 2,960 Ib. Girth 8 ft. 10 in. Height: 21 hands. Average height for equus: 15 hands. Says Owner Van Wickle: "He's just getting his growth...