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...runaway was to be deported, Greek detectives called at his apartment, but Samuel Insull was not there. Immediately a storm of rumors broke. From the Cabinet of Premier Tsaldaris to the couscous merchants on the sidewalks every Athenian had a story of his own. Samuel Insull had been smuggled out of the hotel in a bonnet and shawl, disguised as a charwoman. Samuel Insull had been spirited out of the country by a gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally...
...long list of Athenian lawyers who have defended the Insull interests two new ones were added in the persons of George Popp and George Xeros. Popp & Xeros had a lengthy conference with Premier Tsaldaris. Promptly Greek public opinion switched right around. Public opinion, said the Premier, now had the very greatest sympathy for this harassed old gentleman. He would be allowed to proceed as soon as he had acquired a proper police visa for his traveling papers and the ship he had chartered had filed proper clearance papers...
...complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace, men under Princeton's Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear sifted 23,000 tons of earth, turned up 15,000 coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...
When Alexander MeikleJohn's Experimental College was being tried at the University of Wisconsin, an Athenian owl was its symbol, a device for experimentees to wear on their sweaters. Year ago the College was disbanded, and because of lack of funds no new version of it has been instituted. Like the Athenian owl, Dr. Meiklejohn folded his wings, looked wise. Last week he found a new roost to fly to. In San Francisco next September he will head a new "Adult Center for Social Studies." No entrance requirements will be set, no credits will be given. Dr. Meiklejohn will...