National Affairs: Still Waters

Mr. Augustus Thomas is now in his 69th year and has on the stage his 63rd play. More than 40 years ago, when he was a younger fellow, he was one of those smart looking little boys that run about on the floor of the Senate carrying notes to and from the venerable fathers of legislation. He has not forgotten political Washington in the interval nor lost touch with it.

So it happened that recently when he set out to write his 63rd play, he decided to hark back to his youthful scene and write...

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