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Robert D. Mitchell, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State '32, assistant in Sanitary Engineering; Roy M. Seideman, Long Island City, New York, Long Island '36, assistant in Vital Statistics; Howard A. Potter Jr., Cambridge, instructor in Chemistry; William W. A. Johnson '36, Cambridge, assistant in Astronomy; William T. Pecora 2d, Newark, New Jersey, Princeton '33, assistant in Petrography...
...Cahn '39, Frederic S. Coolidge '40, Vinton A. Dearing '40, Richard S. Fogelman '40. Paul L. Franken '40, Nelson Gildersleeve '40, Israel J. Graff '38, David L. Grove '40, J. H. Lindstrom 1G. Raymond H. Norweb, Jr. '40, Jack M. Perlman '40, Rupert W. Pole '40, George E. Potter '40, William C. Rittman '39, Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Thomas F. Seymour '40, Alan H. Shapley '40, Douglas R. Sears '40, David R. Simboll '40, J. L. Stuart 1L, Elkan Turk, Jr. '89, Walter I. Wardwell '40, Leonard D. Warren, Jr. '40, R. G. Wayland 1G. C. M. Williams...
...alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff of the armored car with gas released from an attacking automobile, an episode that will be censorable in several States since it suggests how to commit a crime...
...Varro would represent in modern Germany is anybody's guess, but Terence, the egotistical potter who briefly became an Emperor, is a dead ringer for Hitler. "To be an Emperor and a Leader meant nothing more to him than demonstrations, great public shows, parades, new buildings, brilliant festivals, power, glamour and above all speeches. When confronted with political and economic problems he withdrew with a dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy...
Varro was patron to the son of one of his freed slaves, Terence, a potter by trade but an actor by inclination, who so strongly resembled the late Nero that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew...