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...Barba Katsikogianni, 89, said: "I was president of this village in 1913. I was president when the Italians came and my old woman got a bad heart from fright. I was president when the Germans came to find the British officers we were hiding; and I was president last year when the goat-thieves [guerrillas] came to drag me up to Helicon . . . [He was saved when the Communists fled before an approaching army unit.] Lots of the young ones who were up there are back in the village now. Two of them-Danos and Georgios -were with...
Other Greeks had other ideas on this score, and thousands this week settled down to a favorite national pastime: scribbling possible cabinet lists on the backs of cigarette boxes. If the scribbling was productive, Greece might get what old Barba Katsikogianni longed for and what Greece herself had not known since 1940-Irene...
Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...
...time the track opens, Promoter Pagliai hopes every one of its 800 stalls will be filled. Last week 300 horses were already trying out its racing strip - including nine owned by President Camacho, eight owned by Governor Barba González of Jalisco, scores of U.S. racers recently imported from California by Mexican bigwigs. Even ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, who once banned all gambling in Mexico (except the National Lottery), is contemplating a racing stable...
Married. Cinecomedian Charles Ruggles, 50; and Marian La Barba, 38; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: ex-Flyweight Champion Fidel La Barba, Cartoonist Billy De Beck (Barney Google...