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...Nero at Nine. Forty-six-year-old Author Caldwell's life story is as extraordinary as Frank's and much more convincing. At nine, soon after her arrival in the tough world of North America, she wrote her first novel-a story of the persecution of the Christians by the Emperor Nero. By twelve, she had done a novel about the French Revolution. She also attended grade school. But father Arthur Caldwell, who was a commercial artist, disapproved of pampering and educating women. When his daughter was 15 and had just finished a biography of Christ...
...Hollywood's latest wrinkles is the practice of slapping together dozens of new producing units to operate under the guise of independent companies, mainly as a tax reduction scheme. One of these post-war babies is an outfit going under the rather meaningless title of Nero Films, and their first effort is now on the market, to no one's particular advantage. Obviously, these gentlemen have seen a picture called "Notorious" a couple of times, and have consequently attempted a watered-down version of the Hitchcock formula...
...famed financier was iron-cold, well-dressed and superior. He seemed rather glad to be out of the dock where one had to sit with such dreadful people. He said that his fellow defendant Goring, for instance, was an ignorant and "immoral criminal type" who liked to play Nero at parties (complete with toga and rouged lips). At that, Göring rose furiously, had to be restrained by Admirals Raeder and Doenitz...
...United States in name only. . . . We have been robbed of our birthright and stripped of our honor because President Truman and his picked associates . . . have had neither the wit nor the courage to face their duties. . . . This group is at the core Communistic and takes its orders from Moscow. . . . Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Truman plays the piano...
...asked to vote whether English should be a "must" course, two out of three voted yes. But the camp's officials are never too sure that prisoners are not just currying favor. In one written examination, 82% of the prisoners named Hitler as history's greatest tyrant; Nero, Napoleon and Hirohito were way behind. Says the present camp commander, Captain Alfred C. Johnson: "We can be sure only that our experiment in education is doing no harm...