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Venus' husband, Vulcan, was a good guy and the god of fire besides, but he was so jealous he couldn't stand to have her out of his sight; his idea of fun for his lovely bride was to have her hang around his forge while he pounded out odd jobs. Anyone but a god would have known that a Venus was bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...when her sexy brother-in-law Mars talked about its "animal implications." At the same time, she got a great kick out of spying on Achilles and Polyxena as they made love in a grove outside the walls of Troy. It was also true that looking at her musclebound Vulcan after he bathed made her forget supper and the problems of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Santa Anita, where the $136,600 Hollywood Gold Cup ("world's richest race") was run, it was a sweltering 96° as the field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Longshot Parade | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good as new as he won over Vulcan's Forge in 2:02 4/5, only three-fifths of a second off. the stake record for a mile and a quarter. quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeback No. 2 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball with Bells | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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