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For three millennia, men have been fascinated by this grisly tale. Stesichorus recorded it, and Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all found in it a theme for tragedy. Voltaire reworked the theme in Oreste, and in Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O'Neill adapted it to the American scene. In this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Tragic Sense of Life | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Listed in the Almanack de Gotha are 26 spinster princesses-and only 16 princes of marriageable age. Not all the princesses come from reigning houses. Two of the prettiest are Maria Gabriella and Maria Beatrice, daughters of Italy's ex-King Umberto. But the biggest problems are in The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royalty: My Son, the Prince | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

When Frederika's son. Crown Prince Constantine, began courting a voluptuous Greek actress, his mother promptly broke up the romance. Frederika had her sights on a higher prize-perhaps even Denmark's beauteous. 16-year-old Princess Anne-Marie, Constantine's coveted companion. For her younger daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royalty: My Son, the Prince | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Died. Irene Pearl Smith Cliett, 63, shotgun-brandishing Texas farmer who, when federal courts ruled against her in a 1958 title fight for ownership of the farm, seceded her 705-acre spread from the Union and applied to the United Nations for membership; of cancer; in Glendale, Calif. Though all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 14, 1962 | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Old steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: On the Cob | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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