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...gaudy resort emerged fairly intact. Facing the sea are 300 yards of villas and terraces. Some of their walls are still covered with paintings of nymphs and satyrs. Two marble and ceramic staircases lead to the upper terraces. Other finds: shower rooms, sculptures of amazons and a Venus, a small theater, three bath houses (one, 90 feet in diameter, shows a large apse open to the sun, presumably for ancient tan-seekers...
Greeks, mythological, ancient and modern, have long been the arbiters of womanly beauty, but their local queens have an uncertain record. Venus won the golden apple from Paris the shepherd, but helped him provoke the Trojan War; Callisto won the glances of Juno's husband, and was promptly turned into a bear; Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Greece of 1929, dressed up in men's clothes and smuggled herself into the monks' sanctuary on Mount Athos that had stood, inviolate, since the Byzantine Empire. The following year the contests were discontinued, and in 1936 Strongman Metaxas decreed that...
...trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal" in spirit, a true masterpiece and a bargain. Price, from a Manhattan dealer...
...Venus had only a few champions. Architect Belluschi told Salem that she was "probably one of the greatest statues of the last 200 years." Said Museum Director Colt: She is "representative of woman as the mother of the race...
...anti-Venus uproar was too loud. Last week Salem heard that the committee had withdrawn their Venus before she even got to town. But Colt was still faithful: he hoped some rich patron would buy Salem's scorned Venus for Portland's museum, where, he was sure, her rich beauty would be appreciated...