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Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...strong-arm boy. But it is already too late: she is one of the few characters left alive in the movie. The party has not only tied up the San Francisco waterfront, but killed her husband, run a sports convertible over her brother, and pushed her prospective sister-in-law out of a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...decided to move to bigger quarters, called on her sister-in-law's secretary, the 37-year-old wife of Dentist Willard Burdette Force, to help her out. From then on, with forceful, explosive Mrs. Force as front man, the Whitney Studio went great guns. By 1928 the Whitney Studio Club, where artists could get together and show their works, had 400 members and 400 more were clamoring to get in. Dozens of artists including Painters John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Sculptor John B. Flannagan, had had their first one-man shows at the Whitney. Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whitney & Force | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Leisure Class | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

They drove a score of frightened Negroes outside, where a cross was burning brightly in the Alabama night. "You've got to keep these niggers down," the neighbors warned Steve Marshlar. One of them told Steve's sister-in-law: "We're tired of the Catholics running this town." Then the night callers got back in their cars and drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: A Call from the Neighbors | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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