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Last year Swedish Archaeologist Einar Gjerstad and Professor Antonio M. Colini, Rome's Director of Museums and Archaeological Excavations, started digging in a pit near a wall of the medieval church of St. Homobonus, patron saint of tailors. Penetrating 20 ft. down, they came to a layer of rubbly soil which they recognized as the earth-fill foundation of Roman temples of Mater Mututa, goddess of childbirth, and Fortuna, protectress of women who have been married only once. In this hallowed ground they found twelve fragments of dark brown pottery decorated with incised dots and geometrical figures...
...William Randolph Hearst in 1951. More interested in profits than press power, Berlin got rid of the Chicago American and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. Says one Hearst executive: "For years our strong papers-Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, Los Angeles-have been drained by losing operations. In the last two years we have decided on concentrating our resources in those areas where there is a possibility of making a profit...
...kind of conviction that passes across the footlights." Whatever its appeal, accompanying has attracted first-rate pianists, among them the U.S.'s Paul Ulanowsky and Franz Rupp, England's Geoffrey Parsons and Martin Isepp, Germany's Hertha Klust and Gerhard Weissenborn, Italy's Antonio Beltrami...
Open Secret. All the while, Greenburg has hungered to bring San Antonio an educational TV station-"the most important tool ever put in the hands of the educational world." By last year, after seven years of trying, a group of like-minded citizens had raised only $7,500 of a needed $400,000. Taking over one afternoon, Greenburg marched into San Antonio's three commercial TV stations, raised $150,000 from them. To keep the drive going, he climaxed his weekly telecasts crying: "If you want $1,000,000 worth of education, send me a buck...
Last month the FCC approved the educational station for San Antonio (46th in the U.S.). Last week, as building plans were being drawn, Greenburg promised that the new station will shun "canned material from the BBC and the Ford Foundation," will be strictly a platform for great teachers to "shame" poor ones. "The classroom won't be a secret any more," says Greenburg. "It will be open to the public eye, and brother, teachers had better perform...