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Best-hated prisoner at Fort Jefferson among the Northern officers in command was Dr. Mudd. Made a hospital orderly, he endured for a few weeks the knowledge of his innocence, of his family's ruin and disgrace, the contempt of his Negro guards. Then he tried to escape. After that he put in twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled...
...commodore that salty old mariner Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, longtime skipper of the Berengaria. Aide-de-camp to George V, who knighted him at a special investiture last year. Sir Edgar was particularly proud last week because as Britain's No. 1 sailor he is now certain to command her No. 1 ship, Queen Mary, when that 73,000-ton monster goes in service next year...
...Duke of Wellington, George Arliss gives an able and highly entertaining portrayal of how Mr. George Arliss would have conducted himself had he been in command of the army which defeated Bonaparte at Waterloo. Physically, of course, he does not come up to the heroic proportions with which we have mentally endowed the great general, and when he totteringly asseverates that he is "a soldier, not a politician," we somehow assume that Disraeli is indulging in a charming bit of modesty. The real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious...
...Next day Rabbi Wolf received newshawks in the midtown Manhattan Synagog where, at an annual cost of $500 to New York City, he is the only registered voter. Wearing a black skullcap, he tabulated chassanim according to their worth as husbands. Most in demand are doctors, who may command a dowry of $12,000. Rabbis get from $7,000 to $10,000, businessmen $5,000 or $6,000. Dentists are not in demand and, said the Rabbi, "a lawyer no one wants. People are afraid of lawyers, I don't know...
...British regiment, must render ineffectual the subtle schemes of an Indian potentate, who is willing to guard his privacy with medieval tortures. Loyalty to the traditions of the regiment and its effect on human emotion are represented in the commanding colonel. Under his command are his son, whom duty commands he disregard; a replacement from the Blues whose Oxford training has lent a veneer to his emotions; and the lieutenant who rebels against the substitution of duty for human affections. The actions of these four individuals make up the story...