Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Blow: Venus and Adonis (Margaret Ritchie, Gordon Clinton; orchestra and chorus conducted by Anthony Lewis : L'Oiseau-Lyre). A late 17th century opera, complete with basso continuo, cupids, and Venus' own recipe for happy love...
...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse (see cut), rejected by Salem's citizens, is now in Portland's Art Museum...
...equipped with suitable transmitting equipment, said Professor Lovell, the telescope could bounce a radar pulse off the moon and get an echo 2½ seconds later not as a faint pip but as a deafening roar. It might also get echoes from Venus and Mars. If there were a spaceship cruising near the moon, the telescope could track it easily. If spaceships ever cruise among the planets, such giant dishes may guide them through space like the radars that help airliners land on fogbound, present-day airports...
...third doorbell (Dolores Donlon), Quinn plays the gentleman and invites the girl to go out with him. "I can't," she says. "I haven't a thing to wear." So she and Quinn stay home. Last stop is a girl named Venus (Peggie Castle), but by this time Quinn seems a little too tired to play an adequate Adonis...
...report in the May 17 issue that National Geographic's new editor John La Gorce's office is "cyprus-paneled." How I envy him! Mine is cypress-paneled, but lucky La Gorce's is paneled with the birthplace of Venus...