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...sacrificed to a flame-bellied god, there a few slaves squashed by a toppling idol. But the liberties are taken with considerable skill, and most of them make entertainingly dramatic sense. The Bible says nothing about the origins of the young Moabite widow who tells her mother-in-law Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go," and accompanies her to Bethlehem. Consequently, no one can disprove the Scriptures according to Fox, which make her a neophyte priestess of Chemosh, the child-devouring stone divinity. This gives Elana Eden, the dark-eyed Israeli actress who plays Ruth, a chance to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Scout's Honor. In Milwaukee, after receiving complaints of nondelivery from office colleagues to whom he had sold 48 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, Richard Polcyn checked with his daughter. Naomi, 12, was told: "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I quit the Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...History of the American Married Female. Expectedly, all the watched sexpots in The Briars boil over, either during the interviewing sessions or in uncontrolled experiments. Among the cases: Sarah Goldsmith, a mother of two who is cheating on a tabby-cat husband with a tomcat theater director; Naomi Shields, an alcoholic nymphomaniac who accommodates an entire jazz combo; Teresa Harnish, the arty wife of an art dealer who decides to find out from a Cro-Magnon beach bum how the other half loves. For a change of pace, the heroine is frigid, or thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...country! in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" -Who said to her Jewish mother-in-law Naomi: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God [Ruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Last week, because of the beets, Aaron Gruwell was dead. So were Kenneth Nelson (after lingering more than a week, part of the time in an iron lung) and daughter Wanda, 15. Naomi Nelson, just out of an iron lung, might take months to recover fully. Martha Nelson. 4, was running around but still under observation. Grandma Gruwell, 64, was propped up in a hospital bed, apparently on the mend. Three children-Eileen, 14, Allen, 10, and Donald, 8, who had not eaten the beets-were in good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Canned Death | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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