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During the five sessions (36 hours) of debate, black-cassocked priests shouted encouragement from the galleries as Peronistas made their argument: Argentina is a Catholic country (90%) and the school is the place for religious instruction. The opposition argued that "it is dangerous to use Caesar's arm to implant the Kingdom of God." At debate's end the majority voted down the opposition. 86-to-41, sent the bill to the Senate...
...happened before. Mt. Etna was a familiar story to Julius Caesar and Pericles. Even before Homer's day, Sicilians were fleeing from their huts pursued by Etna's lava. Geologists estimate that Etna broke through the earth's crust in the middle Pleistocene period, some 300,000 years...
Praying that the dour focus of one Caesar Petrillo will not fall upon their doings, the successful music-hungry performers will receive $1 and the chance to see the scene in which they participate in exchange for their services...
...annual poll taken by Film Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...
King Arthur. Music is not only one of the highest arts, it is also a pretty tough business. In the music business, austere, unapproachable Arthur Judson has the making or breaking of scores of careers. James Caesar Petrillo sets the minimum wages for U.S. musicians; it is Judson who often gets the maximum for the best ones. Judson was once a professional violinist, but he learned early that there is more money in managing artists than in being one. The money he gets from the Philharmonic is peanuts to him ($15,000 a year) but the prestige and power count...