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...seaplane carried him to Crete. Nazi soldiers, dropping out of the sky, drove him on again. He and his party fled once more; guided over the mountains by Capitan ("The Goat") Volanis, a fierce little Cretan guerrila. At the seacoast, he embarked on a British destroyer. From Cairo via Capetown he reached London, set up his Government-in-Exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Long Live the Nation | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Capitano Volanis was a short man, but fierce, handlebar mustaches and shoulders like an ox's made him look ominous. Over 70, he could still clamber goatlike among the mountains of Crete, could still spring on a wild goat and throw it with his bare hands. That was why they called him "The Goat," this notorious leader of the out lawed Venizelists, who wanted no kings in Greece & Crete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRETE: The Goat | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...last year Fate brought Greece worse enemies than kings. The Goat knew they might even swarm over the sea to Crete, where weary-faced Greek and British soldiers were trying frantically to prepare for them. The Goat knew, too who the Man was that the English brought one night to his mountain cottage. Next morning he pointed down toward the valley; it had sprouted parachutes, brilliantly red, green and white. The English said they must take the Man at once to a secret rendezvous where a warship was expected. So the Goat guided them over crooked goat tracks only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRETE: The Goat | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Where's the Goat? In Washington, people got little aid from their representatives. Convinced that gas rationing was misunderstood and unpopular, Senators and Representatives got in tune, lashed out against it. But they had no single goat. Whom were they to blame? Price Boss Leon Henderson? Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes? Donald Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snafu | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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