Word: argos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jason, a relative of Phryxus, decided to get the fleece back. He outfitted a ship, the Argo, and manned it with big-muscled demigods, including Hercules. After some thrilling adventures with shipwrecks, sorcery, brazen bulls and aggressively amorous women, the Argonauts snatched the fleece and brought it home to Thessaly...
Princely Crew. Most of the Argo's 50-oar crew were royal princes, each with his special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest...
December. In Ocoee, Fla., a Miss Gladys Argo became the bride of Army Sergeant Harvard Yale Princeton...
...Chicago, Mrs. Bernice Fanelli complained that her estranged husband broke three of her teeth, answered his countercharge that she smashed his spectacles with: "I am a perfect lady. Before I hit him, I told him he had better take his glasses off." Ivy. In Ocoee, Fla., a Miss Gladys Argo became the bride of Army Sergeant Harvard Yale Princeton...
...Saturdays in New York Baruch still likes to go to the races-as he did last fortnight, with his close friend, Herbert Bayard Swope, to watch the Carter Handicap, once won by his colt Happy Argo. But he has given up his big Kershaw Stable and now makes only "nominal" .bets...