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...Cleopatra, the central thing for Cleopatra herself. The musing middle-aged stranger she addresses, between the paws of the Sphinx, as "Old gentleman," keeps her his doting pupil in queenship, but will not risk his heart. A Roman eagle Caesar is, but like the eagle, bald, and wearing a laurel wreath as a toupee. He is in any case beyond wearing laurel wreaths for show; he knows too well that the only true conqueror is the conqueror worm. Caesar is that type that always fascinated Shaw, the successful man of action. And Shaw molded Caesar nearer to his mind...
...shellacking. President Elpidio Quirino, well-meaning but weak, the leader of a party infected with corruption, had come to power in an election as crooked as a hatful of fishhooks. Last week, in almost every reach of the islands, his Liberals lost to the opposition Nacionalistas, led by Jose Laurel, the able but embittered man who was President of the Philippines under Japanese rule. (Collaboration has largely ceased to be a political issue in the Philippines since the late Manuel Roxas, once No. 2 in the puppet regime, became postwar President with the tacit blessing of Douglas MacArthur...
Nine of the 24 seats in the Senate were at issue. Laurel's Nacionalistas, with the returns almost complete, appear to have won them all, giving them possible control of the Senate. In Quirino's capital of Manila, a Nacionalista became mayor by a 3-to-1 majority...
...busy week for Ben Miller. On Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
...moved over to Big Steel; he has financed Big Steel's expansion out of earnings. Both Olds and Voorhees have offices at 71 Broadway, Big Steel's traditional nerve center, where Fairless joins them each Tuesday afternoon, commuting from Pittsburgh in his private car, the Laurel Ridge...