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...author: I don't believe much in great leaders. Great leaders emerge from circumstances and normally don't create them. Very occasionally one or two produce a difference. If Lenin had not existed, it is hard to see how the Russian Revolution could have succeeded. Further back, Augustus Caesar brought order out of chaos and created the imperial peace...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE, British historian: Chinese Emperor Kao-Tsu (founder of the Han dynasty in the 2nd century B.C.) and Roman Emperor Augustus each gave to millions unity and peace that lasted because their policies were based on moderation which won consent. Thus they repaired the breakdown of the coercive unity briefly imposed by their unsuccessful predecessors, Shih Wang-ti and Julius Caesar...
Died. Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Poston, 67, reporter for more than 40 years and one of the first black newsmen to cover general stories for a major New York daily; after a long illness; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ted Poston worked as a dining-car waiter and freelance writer in Europe before joining the staff of the New York Amsterdam News and then the New York Post, where his byline appeared for 33 years. His first big stories were exclusive interviews with Governor Huey Long of Louisiana and Wendell Willkie; other assignments included Thomas E. Dewey's raids...
Director MacDonald's choice of Robert Garringer as that "wise old fool," Lord Augustus Lorton, proved to be quite apt--and most humorous. Richard Sale was impressive as Cecil Graham, the erratic character that in so many ways resembles his erratic playwright creator...
...Karl Augustus Menninger, M.D., celebrated his 80th birthday at a monstrous bash last week. Like many another octogenarian, he spent much of the next day rocking in his chair. But this was no porch rocker; it was the spring-backed executive chair in the busy Chicago branch office of the Menninger Foundation, an umbrella organization for a multitude of psychiatric services. By 11 a.m. Menninger had already conferred with a number of people, including a publisher who is bringing out one of his three books for 1973. Besides a technical work, Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique (Basic Books; $7.95), rewritten with...