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Not to be confused with a statue in the Louvre, this Venus is a cow. The hero, David Niven, sheds his kilts to bring the captive back to England (because she is a rare breed and important to the war effort). On the way over, by submarine naturally, he picks...
In the 1930s, however, the prime pastime at Muriel's New York parties ceased to be music. Now, like many another patron of the modern arts, Muriel began to discover "the creative impulse . . . in the field of human relations," i.e., Communism. In 1934, she went to the U.S.S.R. "to...
U.S. engineers were amazed to discover that there were no meters in Tokyo. The system was for householders to pay a standard sum for a stipulated amount of current. Many householders, as everybody knew, let neighbors tap in, for a profitable though illegal fee. At first, the Americans insisted on...
She set her sights on the target almost the first day she entered the Archives. It was then that she happened to discover a document concerning a man named Pedro de Lepe, one of the most controversial figures aboard the Santa Maria. A longtime Columbus enthusiast, Alice Gould knew that...
Jewels & Spices. Like any good housekeeper, she managed to tidy up a number of historical mysteries. For one thing, she unearthed copies of the much-debated Columbus "Entail of Property," in which Ferdinand and Isabella gave their Admiral the right to one tenth of all the spices and jewels he...