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Warrior. In London, Julius Caesar, 20, enlisted to fight Rome...
...James Caesar Petrillo is the tough boss of 130,000 members of the American Federation of Musicians. That's not enough for Mr. Petrillo: he wants more people in his union-the top-notch pianists, violinists, other concert artists who belong to the American Guild of Musical Artists. Last summer Boss Petrillo told these superior gentry to join his A. F. of M. before Labor Day, or be barred from playing with union men, making records, going on the air. A. G. M. A. set its jaw, went to court. In a series of trials, Petrillo finally...
...were seen; no lioness whelped in the street. There were no such signs or portents anywhere. Yet very soon now, on a Monday at high noon, a U. S. President would be inaugurated for a third term-a fact as gravid with significance to the U. S. as Julius Caesar's fatal Ides of March were to Rome...
Roberts expects to go on writing historical novels. "I like this stuff," he confesses. He likes the sameness of historical types over the ages, claims Caesar's and Washington's legionnaires were the same types, has discovered that soldiers of the American Revolution said "buddy" and "okay"and used modern obscenities.Critics call his work romance, but Roberts' real interest is to tell what he thinks really happened. Says Kenneth Roberts: "All novels are historical, unless you just want to write about yourself...
...censor-delayed dispatch from India printed in the Christian Century last week revealed that the British Government was taking extra precautions that missionaries should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. The method: a revised memorandum covering "aliens desiring to undertake missionary work" in India and Burma. Since World War I the British have required every foreign missionary to pledge that he would "do nothing contrary to or in diminution of the authority of the lawfully constituted government in the country to which I am appointed." The mission board or society which supports him now shares that...