Word: milos
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...questions or less, the panel tries to identify some object, suggested by a listener. Samples: Ben Hur's chariot, the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby...
...this connection . . . I'd like to correct a misstatement in the TIME article. . . . Your man said legend has it that Milo "lugged a four-year-old cow." That's wrong. Milo toted an ox. Your city man may not know...
Ever since Milo of Crotona, in the 6th Century B.C., lugged a four-year-old cow to a sacrificial altar, farm boys have been trying to duplicate his legendary feat. Rural jokesters long ago figured out how a man might lift better than his weight in beef. If a growing boy lifts a small calf, they say, and keeps lifting it day after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last...
...Lenore Johannesson, Miss Canada [TIME, Aug. 6], you say: "They [a sculptor, a painter, a photographer] refrained from comment on her streamlined figure, which is neither Canadian nor classic." Then, presumably as the classic, you give us the measurements of Venus de Milo. It is not Venus de Milo who is regarded by classicists as having the classic figure. It is Venus de' Medici...
...Scaled measurements of Venus de Milo: height, 5 ft. 4 in., bust, 37 in., waist, 26 in., hips, 38 in., calf 13½ in., ankle...