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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...
...Venus de Milo was back at her old stand in Paris, after six years of wartime exile. Fresh from a castle in Valencay (with a smudge on her nose), she was uncrated and hoisted into her place in the Louvre...
...Milo is not sure the thing will work. But he has bucked odds before...