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Faith Bacon, ecdysiast extraordinary (she has used fans, fawns, feathers, flowers), sued the University of California for three sexy, pseudo-Grecian statues left it by Founder Henry Douglas Bacon, from whom she claims descent. Her demand: either remove the statues (which she has never seen) from storage in a University basement, or give them to her. The University decided to give. Weight of the overwhelming gift: nine tons...
...Americas come from? Some experts believe that the Toltecs and the Aztecs drifted to the central plains of Mexico from Asia, by way of Alaska. The tantalizing, inconclusive "evidence" that keeps cropping up in early Mexican art: what looks like Chinese jade, Oriental symbols, the swastika and a few Grecian motifs which filtered into China from Greece hundreds of years before Christ...
Sophocles, 49-year-old second son of the late, great Eleutherios Venizelos, is a veteran of Grecian wars with Bulgaria and Turkey, a onetime bridge champion, a declared opponent of the Greek monarchy, who nevertheless joined the Greek Cabinet in Cairo last year...
...also learned the "oneness" of the European idea. The Coudenhoves originally rose to great estate in The Netherlands and Belgium. They followed their dukes from the Low Countries into Austria when the French Revolution turned Europe upside down. The Kalergis originated as a family with a great name in Grecian Crete. Eventually the Coudenhoves and the Kalergis came together, but only after mixing their bloods with the blood of Balts, Germans, Norwegians and Polish Russians. Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi's union with a Japanese girl was quite in line with the marrying tradition of his family...
...from the south the Liberators flew to drop their calling cards at the Balkan door to middle Europe. They surprised Sedes airdrome, the big Luftwaffe base near Salonika, struck a savage blow and got away without loss. Four days later their wings swept again over Grecian soil, their bombs plastered Nazi airfields near Athens...