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...boil under 1,000° F., does not evaporate, and only begins to freeze at -40° F. One American scientist has even speculated that the strange, sticky substance would, if released from the lab, propagate itself by feeding on natural water, eventually turning the earth into another Venus (TIME, Dec. 19). Other scientists, however, have found all such claims hard to swallow...
Even an arrangement of the paintings by donors could have commented on the taste of particular families. The elaborate Toilet of Venus was donated by Wiliam K. Vanderbilt. Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist, helped the Havemeyer family choose the works of Spanish artists. El Greco's View of Toledo is part of the 1929 Havemeyer bequest: a view of Mary Cassatt's judgment...
...July, twelve-year-old Venus Yates lay in Los Angeles County General Hospital under intensive care for rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever and a tumor on her spine. Against the hospital's wishes, Venus' parents took her on a stretcher to one of Kuhlman's monthly services in the Shrine Auditorium. As the service neared its end, Venus' mother suddenly said, "You're cured!" Medical tests for the ailments now prove entirely negative...
...staff spends little time verifying healings, because Kathryn has no doubt that they are accomplished. But in some remarkable cases, such as that of Venus Yates, they attempt to document the cure fully...
...reputation. Bearing the subtitle A Summer Comedy, it completes a quartet of plays intended to celebrate the seasons and the regenerative powers of the human spirit. When Fry began the cycle in 1948 with The Lady's Not for Burning (spring) and continued two years later with Venus Observed (autumn), his name flared like a rocket over the grayness of postwar theater. He was, it seemed, no less than a successor to the Elizabethans. After his winter play in 1954, The Dark Is Light Enough, the English stage was stormed by the realistic "angry" playwrights, and Fry was jostled...