Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw once wrote that "Caesar is greater off the battlefield than on it." Claude Rains's excellent performance makes that observation valid. As for Vivien Leigh, probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There are other excellent jobs: Flora Robson as Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's savage nurse; Anthony Harvey as her petulant, bewildered little brother; Francis L. Sullivan as the corrupt councilor, and Stewart Granger as Apollodorus...
Superior Cushion. Another minor incident made a familiar crackle. When Murray Garsson's son Captain Joseph H. Garsson-of the Chemical Warfare Service, of course-was court-martialed and convicted for refusing to obey an order to emplace his 4.2 mortar company on the battlefield, it was Andy May who had turned up to lend a helping hand...
Down Constitution Avenue this week marched one of the smartest, toughest fighting units the U.S. had ever sent to the battlefield. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team-all Nisei except for a sprinkling of officers-was home from the wars. On the rain-soaked Ellipse adjoining the White House, the wiry little soldiers, their crisp khaki crumpling to a soggy brown, stood rigidly at attention while President Truman fixed the Presidential Unit Citation banner to the regimental colors...
President Truman, asked about it in a press conference on the battlefield of Gettysburg, snapped: Just another one of O'Donnell's damned lies. Out of whole cloth. It's beneath an answer...
Meanwhile Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop reported: "Intelligence has just reached Washington from Manchuria . . . that among the dead left by the Chinese forces on the battlefield of Szepingkai, a great many were Soviet volunteers...