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...temple. The development of Caesar, the materialist with an idealistic end, comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination of killer and nurse, handles herself with barbaric competence. Stewart Granger, who looks like the muscular product of a California beach, manages adequately to make about half the audience squeal ecstatically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/20/1946 | See Source »

...Grandview, Mo. airport to meet him were his mother, who had been in bed with a cold, his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Mary Jane Truman. Visitors were banned. After a night in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, the presidential party drove some 50 miles to 97-year-old William Jewell College at Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sixth Degree | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Into Berlin's press camp breezed a pretty young ex-WAC introduced as Vivian Cox, an "expert" attached to the Military Directorate. Sitting on a desk and dangling her long, nylon-clad legs, Miss Cox answered indignant newsmen's questions in a pleasant Southern drawl. How would "militaristic" be defined, asked one reporter. Replied Miss Cox: "It's the way the Germans have of waging war." How would "democratic" be defined? Said Miss Cox: "Everything American people think and call democratic." Was the order different in principle from Nazi book burnings? No, not in Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Read No Evil | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...stubborn, powerful player, with the doglike retrieving instincts of Georgia's Bitsy Grant, he also had plenty of offensive equipment, a cannonball service, a good backhand, a devastating overhead. He swung his heavy (15¼ oz.) racket two-handed in Bromwich-Vivian McGrath style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again, the Davis Cup | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...Denver 2,000 irate Colorado schoolteachers marched straight up the Capitol steps to ask Governor John C. Vivian a question. Why did he plan to spend eight of the state's $10 million surplus on roads, none on schools? They had some statistics to hurl at him: over 300 of Colorado's schools failed to open this fall because of a teacher shortage. There was a shortage of teachers because-as one marcher put it: "On the western slope of Colorado, they're paying sheepherders $140 a month, schoolteachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers v. Charwomen | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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