Word: diana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years ago Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, began collecting references to an ancient temple of Diana that apparently flourished for more than a thousand years near ancient Vravron, a fertile place on the east coast of Attica about 24 miles east of Athens. Herodotus mentioned the temple. So did Aristophanes, who hinted at orgies there. In Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris, the goddess Minerva tells Iphigenia and Orestes to take the statue of Diana that they had snatched from a temple in Tauris on the Black...
...Papadimitriou put together all his information from ancient sources and began to probe the ground at Vravron, now called Vraona, and inhabited by Albanian-speaking villagers, who grow tomatoes and cucumbers. Soon he found fragments of carved marble, which led him step by step toward the buried ruins of Diana's shrine. First to be found was the ceremonial "tomb" of Diana. Last June the overturned but well-preserved columns of the temple itself came to light. This month the diggers unearthed a magnificent stoa (portico) which can easily be restored. Many of the carved stones were in remarkably...
...rather, does not tell. For reasons best known to the inscrutable West Coast, Gossipist Graham has chosen to spill the news of her life to Fellow Journalist (Coronet) Gerold Frank, whose ghost-written accounts of lost and love-shorn ladies (Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon) have made him a leading sob brother. He achieves a confidential tone that rarely confides, a vulgarity that is everywhere in the air but never down-to-earth, and a range of emotional responses as they might be felt by paper dolls...
Born. To William Pettus Hobby Jr., 26, newspaperman, son of former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby and ex-Governor of Texas (1917-21) William Hobby, and Diana Stallings Hobby, 27, daughter of Playwright Laurence (What Price Glory) Stallings: their first child, a daughter; in Houston. Name: Laura Poteet...
...have been an innocent world that perished in 1914, but on Lady Diana's showing it might be said that true innocents inhabited it. Perfection would never again be waiting at the castle gate...