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...added more pictures inside and have introduced a variety of artistic styles on our cover. For our anniversary issue, it seems quite appropriate to us that we have a cover that looks to the future in space but makes a gentle bow to the past through Botticelli's Venus...
...bone-weary scientists had worked all night. But as they walked away from the lab, they seemed curiously reluctant to quit. They loitered in the cool dawn and stared at the eastern horizon. There, the pale glow of Venus marked the morning-as it has done so many times since man learned to recognize Earth's nearest planetary neighbor...
Caldwell's mortal wound comes from the indifference of students at Olinger (read Olympus) High, and the casual thunderings of its Principal Zimmerman (read Zeus). He is, moreover, tormented by the teasing lechery of Vera (Venus), the gym teacher, and the unreliability of his old Buick, which must be fixed by Vera's husband Hummel (Hephaestus), a cuckolded garage keeper...
...most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that practically constitutes an insult to Jehovah...
...moon and Mars, Lyttleton calculates, are too small to have liquid cores, and this may be why neither of them has mountain ranges. But Venus is about the same size as the earth, is probably made of much the same material, and it may have a shrinking liquid core. As man's space probes continue to study the distant planet, they may discover that it has a pattern of wrinkled, earth-type mountains hidden under its cloud deck...