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Jason, a relative of Phryxus, decided to get the fleece back. He outfitted a ship, the Argo, and manned it with big-muscled demigods, including Hercules. After some thrilling adventures with shipwrecks, sorcery, brazen bulls and aggressively amorous women, the Argonauts snatched the fleece and brought it home to Thessaly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jason & the Greasy Fleece | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

But this time it looked as if Howard Hughes might have pulled one monkey-shine too many. A lot of people in & out of T.W.A. were getting fed up. One was CAB Chairman James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Baffle for T.W.A. | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Investigation the possibility that prehistoric man crossed the Staits of Gibralter on dry land, a University-led expedition to continne war-interrupted research at the Caves of Hercules near Tangiers will leave Cambridge next April.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exploration of Prehistoric African Caverns Is Planned for Spring by Peabody Scientists | 12/10/1946 | See Source »

Like Hercules attacked by serpents in his cradle, LIFE almost came a cropper in its infancy by woefully underestimating public demand. Its advertising rate was only $1,500 a page, based on a 250,000-a-week guarantee. When circulation shot over a million in four months, advertisers crowded aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Span of LIFE | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Winning an Argument. The shock of the Socialist-Communist pact was aug mented by surprise. Since last spring, when left-wing Socialist Pietro Nenni and Communist leader Palmiro ("Hercules") Togliatti put their heads together in a vain attempt at merger, the political tides in Italy and the rest of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Two Bombs | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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