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Island Rescue (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) has a real Venus for its leading lady. She is a goddess among cows, a triumph of scientific breeding, and she lives on the Channel island of Armorel. Since Venus is in calf by champion bull Mars of Mellowbury III, the expected progeny is of vital concern to the British Ministry of Agriculture...
...century ago, British surveyors, measuring the towering Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border, found the world's highest mountain: 29,141 feet. Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma, meaning "Goddess Mother of Mountains," but the British named it after Sir George Everest, the crack surveyor who charted much of India. Last week Red Peking, which recently gobbled up Tibet, decreed that Everest (which no one has ever climbed to the summit) will hereafter be known by its ancient name, Chomolungma...
When he reaches Cambridge he plans to live aboard his ship "Miru" named after a Polynesian goddess anchored in the Charles. When at work in New Zealand, Davis depends upon the ship to reach the more than 16,000 people in the Islands...
...capable shoulders. With little help but a great deal of sympathy from his own species he struck terrible blows at the gods of matrimony, offering a smile of hope to the beleaguered American male. But, as is the inevitable lot of those who would scoff at the goddess Venus, he fell victim to the very thing he fought . . . This great satirist now gambols about his new-found Elysian fields along with the movie moguls and advertisers, caught up in the perfumed product of their own imagination and in the daily propitiating of the Great American Female . . . Those of us left...
...mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there are in fact no such plans afoot. "The slavery of the British was a thousand times better than the Freedom of today," the candidate went on. "I swear by the Goddess Chamunda that if elected I will continue to serve the people as my ancestors have done for seven hundred years...