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Inefficiency Expert. The almost patho logically detached Leonardo also served the most bloodthirsty power politician of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. Leonardo was Borgia's military engineer, with no inter est whatever in politics. There exist some remarkable maplike bird's-eye views of the Italian terrain which Leonardo drew for Borgia's ill-fated campaigns...
...That Borgia profile ill becomes a Medici...
...exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe, bringing the temporal power of the Papacy to its high-water mark); Leo X (a worldly, cultivated gentleman who excommunicated Martin Luther and proved incapable of dealing with the problems of the Reformation); Alexander VI (a Borgia, who practiced simony and nepotism and failed in his master plan to conquer and unify Italy); Pius VII (whose Concordat with Napoleon restored Catholicism to France); Leo XIII (whose encyclical, Rerum Novarum, first diagnosed for Catholics the sickness of contemporary society and called upon them authoritatively to cure...
...This county wouldn't hang Lucrezia Borgia," a reporter (Lynne Overman) informs Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers), redheaded, gum-chewing, wisecracking dancer, whose husband has just shot her lover and pinned the murder on her. Convinced that she can't have a career and be innocent, too, Roxie agrees to stand trial and let the newspapers "put her right up there" with Peaches Browning, Queen Marie, Ruth Snyder and Red Grange...
...happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger...