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...Great Gods (who never used their real names) were established on Samothrace before the Greeks arrived. For 1,000 years their priests grew fat on the votive offerings of well-heeled worshipers. Ulysses reportedly was a member of the cult; so was L. Calpurnius Piso, father-in-law of Julius Caesar. But in 395 A.D. the worship of the Great Gods was suppressed by the Christian Emperor Theodosius, and their temples were abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony, Crosby pitches charm, song and the pathos of his wards, resorts to conspiratorial shenanigans with the help of his editor (Robert Keith), his would-be father-in-law (James Barton) and Tone's repressed cousin (Alexis Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Died. John Sheldon Doud, 80, father-in-law of General Dwight D. Eisenhower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...that moment sharing a chicken luncheon with his father and father-in-law in a working-class apartment in the dusty, dirty Batignolles district above the Gare St. Lazare, Paul Colin was not aware that he had captured the year's literary jackpot. Novelist Colin, a thin, retiring young man, was living on unemployment relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jackpots | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Rockefeller's $5,000,000 will provide for the construction and partial endowment of a new classroom building at the school. The new building will be named in honor of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, Rockefeller's father-in-law...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Busy School Gets $5 Million in Gifts | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

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