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...final show, the audiences saw Up in Central Park, with several members of its Broadway cast. The big favorites, however, are such sentimental standbys as The Great Waltz, Show Boat and Babes in Toyland. The directors usually bypass Broadway hits like One Touch of Venus or Bloomer Girl, considering them too gamy for the family trade...
...entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored St. George charged in, precariously perched on a white horse that at first stubbornly refused to face the guest of honor. The cast also included 94 white pigeons which made their entrance...
Face-to-face: the Venus de Milo and Marilyn Buferd, Venus d'Atlantic City ('46). Paris-visitor Miss Buferd, who was dressed to disadvantage, has a 35½-in. bust and a 25½-in. waist, no match for Milo, who is 39 in. around the middle...
...planets, for instance, revolve in the same direction and in almost the same plane. The four inner ones (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are smaller and denser than the outer ones (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Perhaps the most remarkable peculiarity is that the outer planets possess almost all the "angular momentum" (energy of rotation) in the system. Any satisfactory theory of the solar system's origin must account for these "regularities...
...part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible for a short time just after the sun had set, showing almost as bright as Venus, with a tail 50 million miles long. For northern hemisphere lookers, it Was a daytime comet: it was there but no one couid...