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Born. To Elizabeth Taylor, 25, beauteous London-born cinemactress (Elephant Walk, Giant), and Mike Todd, 50, sled-jawed promoter-producer (Around the World in 80 Days); a daughter, their first child (her third, his second); in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth (Liza) Frances. Weight...
...could you stir us up this way with the provocative information that wealthy King Saud's gift to Ike was a secret [Feb. 18]? We keep imagining a locked room somewhere in the White House, unknown even to Mamie, in which is hidden a bevy of veiled and beauteous dancing girls...
Till We Have Faces twists the ancient Psyche myth into strange new shapes. The action takes place in the barbaric Kingdom of Glome, somewhere north of civilized ancient Greece. The central figures are the beauteous Princess Psyche, a symbol of sacred love, and her ugly sister Orual, a symbol of profane love. By contrast, their Greek slave tutor, Lysias the Fox, is a symbol of the rational, worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies...
...also of court painters and poets still ranked among China's greatest. Among the period's leading figures : the Empress Wu, who rivals Britain's first Elizabeth for energy and cunning; the "Illustrious Sovereign" Hsuan-Tsung, scholar and educator, whose tragic love for the beauteous Yang Kuei Fei ended when the army, incensed at her extravagance, forced her to be hanged from a pear tree with a silken scarf...
Ordway predicted that the new building will put to shame the Lampon's "pantagruellian gargoylerole" and the CRIMSON'S "mouldering monolith." The Advocate's new home, he said, will be "utilitarian, beauteous, and in superb good taste...