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Married. Paul-Louis Weiller, wealthy French director of the Gnome and Rhone Motors Co.; and Alice Diplarakos, Greek winner of the 1930 "Miss Universe'' title; in Paris. Witnesses: Author Paul Morand, Poet Paul Valery, Diplomat Philippe Berthelot. No witness was Graeco-American Wrestler Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), once reported engaged to Alice Diplarakos...
...After winning the middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling championship. Ivar Johansson, Swedish policeman, took a Turkish bath instead of attending his victory ceremonies. Then, 11 lb. lighter, he won the welterweight Graeco-Roman wrestling championship. Other Graeco-Roman champions were Finnish Vaino Kokkinen, who defended his 1928 middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland...
Because Giovanni Fummi, his representative in Rome, arrived at Naples to talk business, John Pierpont Morgan abandoned a special-train ride to the archaeological diggings at Pesto (the ancient Graeco-Roman city of Paestum) and thus, with his yacht-guest, the Archbishop of Canterbury, missed the unearthing of a fine bronze satyr...
Next day the two Prime Ministers signed a Treaty of Friendship & Neutrality, amazing in view of the extreme bitterness of the Graeco-Turkish War (1921-23), followed by the expulsion from Turkey of 1,400,000 Greeks. A second treaty was also signed pledging Greece and Turkey to maintain the present status quo of their naval strengths...
When Howard Carter arrives in Alexandria he will find Professor Evaristo Breccia, director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, already probing in the dust beneath the Mosque of the Prophet Daniel, searching for Alexander's body. For 25 years Professor Breccia Pleaded with Moslem authorities for the privilege of digging, only last week received permission...