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...great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome's Palatine Hill. But his successor, Tiberius, crowned the hill with an elaborate palace, and when the Roman Empire fell, barbarian kings. Popes and nobles made their homes on the Palatine...
...another part of the forest, Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) announced that his version of Cleopatra, which stars Elizabeth Taylor (naturally; who is Pharaohess of them all?), would be considerably different from Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. (Work had begun on the movie when Liz took sick last fall.) "Shaw's life," Mankiewicz explained, "is full of letters to naive young girls, instructing them in the ways of the world. He wrote Caesar and Cleopatra as if he'd come upon Cleopatra himself in that pile of rocks. The play is a Shavian dream...
Show business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...
...Unlike Caesar's wife, the university has not been free from fault or mistakes. The News has always been free to caution or criticize. Many of its editorial writers have not agreed with all of our professors, any more than our professors have agreed with all the editorials. Both have exercised the treasured freedom to speak out and differ, but there has always been a mutual respect and common kinship of purpose...
...that they were very ugly would also be to lie. They simply were, and we asked no more of them." Warned Fayssat: "We are afflicted in 1961 with the same needs as the old guards of the empire, the musketeers of Louis XIII. the legionnaires of Caesar, and Cro-Magnon man." But the council heartlessly ruled that in the age of indoor plumbing, the vespasienne was outmoded. By 1963. the last one would be razed...