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Died. Kurt Weill, 50, German-born composer of topflight musicals (Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus), who collaborated with Playwright Maxwell Anderson on the current Broadway smash hit, Lost in the Stars; of heart trouble; in Manhattan...
...turned the trick of making poetic drama a sizzling box-office hit. A year ago, few even in London literary circles had heard of Christopher Fry. Last week the name was marquee magic that packed two theaters with customers of all brow heights. The plays: Fry's Venus Observed, produced, directed and acted by Sir Laurence Olivier...
Comet Tanned. After leaving the earth for the second time, the comet bore down on the planet Mars (the Greeks recorded a love affair between the god Mars and the goddess Venus). This encounter settled and domesticated the comet, which accepted a regular orbit. Now, as the planet Venus, it revolves around...
...ones into widespread deluges. They usually worshiped the sun in some form, and were therefore apt to spin myths about times when their god or gods' behaved oddly. Velikovsky makes a large collection of these catastrophe myths and insists that they refer to the visits of the Venus-comet...
...spite of the high-sounding advance testimonials that Worlds in Collision has picked up, few experts cared to waste much time on the Velikovsky theory. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin of the Harvard College Observatory pointed out that there are records of detailed observations of Venus from at least 500 years before the Exodus. Said Dr. David Delo, executive director of the American Geological Institute: "Velikovsky appears to be bypassing all the sound, scientific observations of a multitude of geologists...