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...York via a lifetime of private railroad cars, first-class steamships, private airplanes and chauffeur-driven limousines. He is worth some $40 million and owner of homes in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn in for his present job as director of the Mutual Security Administration, Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly quipped...
...ancient Rome the Vestal Virgins were six daughters of patrician families who were appointed at the age of six to ten to keep a flame constantly burning in the temple of Vesta, Rome's goddess of the hearth. Twenty centuries later, when Producer Gabriel Pascal got around to casting six Vestal Virgins for RKO's Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs...
...Bentley (Britain): "A patrician urbanity of style other schools of design have failed to render obsolete...
...wife of 25 years found the new freedom strange at first, then heady and engrossing. She had been an old-fashioned bride (the bridegroom had chosen her by photograph), a subservient wife & mother (three children), sheltered by the taboos of a feudal-minded patrician society. Her most daring departure from tradition had been to learn modern dancing. In her first days as a commoner, while her husband tended his fowl, she gave dancing lessons to other former lords and ladies in her living room. The dances became parties, and the parties moved to the fashionable Industry Club. Mrs. Kacho began...
...scenes of the closing minutes, when the gladiators and lion; are turned loose on the martyrs, does this film develop any real excitement. Up to then, it dawdles turgidly over a tame counterfeit of Roman debauchery, an involved political-religious intrigue and a routine love story that pairs a patrician's daughter (Michele Morgan) with a crypto-Christian gladiator (Henri Vidal...