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...told in Harry Kemp's Tramping on Life: As Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first" wife, the aggrieved husband thrust her coffeepot upon him, saying, "You. can take this to your goddess, this poison machine, and lay it on her altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Harshaw seems a natural Wagnerian. She arrived at the Met in 1942 as a contralto, gradually developed her high notes until she became a full-fledged soprano. A fortnight ago, she began belting out impressive "ho-yo-to-hos" in one of Wagner's grandest roles -the helmeted goddess Briinnhilde in Die Walkure-with such success that some critics were comparing her with Flagstad herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Good Ho-Yo-To-Ho | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Comedian Skelton is cast as Ambrose, a second-chisel man in a big Manhattan jewelry store, a diamond cutter whose tragedy is that he just buffs up the big ones for somebody else to blast. The big one in question is a stupendous rock called "The Blue Goddess." and some chiselers of another sort than Ambrose are interested in her. A foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Sinclair, on the other hand, hated coffee SO deeply that when Harry (Tramping on Life) Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first wife, the aggrieved husband, according to Kemp, found her percolator and thrust it upon her lover, saying:"You can take this to your goddess, this poison machine, and lay it on her altar." Little wonder, then, that the U.S. public was in an uproar last week over coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Cup That Agitates | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

When he spurns her, she falsely accuses him of raping her, then stands by as his father disembowels him. Jeffers lets the Goddess Aphrodite have the last word: We are not extremely sorry for the woes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother to Boulders | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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