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...exhumation of the Athenian agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...
...might tell you how my father and mother, my wife and myself were nearly drowned in the Gulf of Corinth on Thanksgiving...
...Greek Government, grateful to my father for his work as Chairman of the Greek Refugees' Commission established by the League of Nations, had promised to place a gunboat at our disposal for the crossing from Corinth to Itea. Unfortunately the gunboat would not work and the Greek Government could only supply us with an auxiliary tender 65 feet long...
...Suddenly a tremendous gale swept down upon us and for hours we were buffeted and tossed about, while the Greek captain attempted to put back toward Corinth or one of the neighboring sheltered coves. . . . Eventually we were landed on a lonely stretch of shore, 15 miles from the nearest village. There was not a house or protection of any kind to be had. Rain and hail pelted us for hours. . . . At last one of our party walked to the nearest hamlet where there was a telephone, and an automobile was sent out by the Near East Relief at Corinth...
...Bonaventura Cerretti, Archbishop of Corinth, now apostolic nuncio in Paris, onetime auditor of the apostolic delegation...