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...real erotic beauty of Model Marola Witt will be as anonymous as ever after TIME'S microscopic photograph of her [Dec. 22]. We susceptible men see the girl-goddess inside all those high-fashion cetups. We don't overlook her familiar long finders. !- n;j le^s, sleek brows, tiny nose, and hoyden's smile. REID GARDNER JR. Los Angeles...
Though 35 years had passed since her swooning body draped the bier of Cinema Idol Rudolph Valentino, Polish-born Pola Negri, 63, still held some aspects of her fabled romance with Valentino too sacred to reveal. Interviewed by Columnist Bob Considine at her San Antonio home, the onetime goddess of the silent screen wistfully recalled that "Rudolph loved to make spaghetti and meatballs. He had his own special recipe. I never tire of it, and I will never share with anyone else the secret of his meat sauce...
...Sita, wife of Rama, was kidnaped by Ravana, but later proved by a trial by fire that she was still virtuous. Lakshmi was the consort of Vishnu and the goddess of wealth and luck. The Rani of Jhansi fought the British in the 1857 Indian mutiny, was killed in battle...
During Nepal's eight-day festival of Indra-jatra, the Kumari works hard at the goddess trade-receiving the homage of King Mahendra, being toted through the city in a gilt-covered copper carriage drawn by 25 men, giving her worshipers tika (a dot of white powder on their foreheads), getting used to sitting quietly on her throne...
When menstruation at last forces her retirement, Laksmi may face a grim future. Her predecessor, who has just rejoined her family, is so shy and bewildered in the mortal world that she is unable to answer questions, and has difficulty climbing stairs, since as a goddess she was always carried up and down. Most of the ex-goddesses turn into unhappy old maids. Their handicap in husband-hunting: the rigidly held belief that the man who ends the virginity of a former Kumari will die after six months...