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...greater off the battlefield than on it." Claude Rains's excellent performance makes that observation valid. As for Vivien Leigh, probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There are other excellent jobs: Flora Robson as Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's savage nurse; Anthony Harvey as her petulant, bewildered little brother; Francis L. Sullivan as the corrupt councilor, and Stewart Granger as Apollodorus...
...famed as a testing ground for new auto gadgets. But this race, the first since 1941, was mostly a contest between patched-up prewar jobs. Only nine of the 33 starters finished. The largest crowd ever to watch a U.S. sport event (175,000 people) saw shy George Robson, 36, in his third try at Indianapolis, cross the line first. He averaged 114 m.p.h. in his light blue, alcohol-burning Thorne Special. His reward: about $48,000 in prizes and a trip around the world...
Gain or Obstacle? Labor's first reaction was mostly favorable. Said President Aaron Mosher of the Canadian Congress of Labor: "A good equivalent of the union shop." Elroy Robson, President of the C.C.L. Toronto Labor Congress, said the ruling was "worthy of the wisdom of a Solomon...
...Those with Children. In Chicago, Judge Edwin A. Robson had installed a nursery just off his court. As parents stood before the bench last week (few Chicago bailiffs wasted time asking them to take the witness stand), their children looked at comic books or played with blocks just down the hall. Children were still the real victims. Thousands of them would learn to accept the impermanence of their parents' marriages as natural and matter-of-fact. Instead of having two parents they would now have one - or three, or four; they would learn to be visitors...
...after five years of research, J. J. Denny, Drs. Wilmot Douglas Robson and Dudley Arthur Irwin, working for Ontario's Mclntyre-Porcupine (gold) Mines, found a strange treatment which worked on guinea pigs: fine aluminum dust. When inhaled, aluminum dust forms a jelly around the silica particles, making them harmless...