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...Venus is the nearest of the major planets to Earth and almost the same size. Its diameter is 7,700 miles against Earth's 7,927 miles. Venus has a dense atmosphere; its surface is constantly veiled by clouds. But the spectroscope discloses that Venus' atmosphere is largely composed of carbon dioxide; there is no discernible oxygen. Animal life could hardly get a foothold in such an environment. If there were vegetable life, it would have converted some of the carbon dioxide into oxygen. Dr. Jones considers that Venus is more or less in Earth's condition...
...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...
Country to the report given by the Boton papers, the CRIMSON Flotilla played its part at Wellesley's Float Night on Friday very skillfully and artistically. The Harvard float depicted the amorous adventures of Venus (Wellesley) and Adonis (Harvard...
...born near Paris in 1594, worked there until in 1624 he scraped up enough money to go to Rome. He lived and painted in Rome till he died 41 years later. Well represented in the Durlacher show are his airy, romantic landscapes, his carefully voluptuous canvases of classic myths (Venus and Adonis, The Triumph of Bacchus), his poised, devout religious paintings...
...began as plain Jessie Dermot, a Maine sea captain's daughter. She changed her name, and in 1890, when she was 19, made her stage debut. Ten years later she was the toast of Manhattan-in Ethel Barrymore's phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...