Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eleven-Point Question. Will Van Doren keep gambling on Twenty One? His friends and family are sharply divided on whether he should, and, in his own mind, so is he. Says St. John's Classmate Steven Benedict, now a U.S. Information Agency officer: "He's almost a Greek tragic hero, a vast commercial property being used by Geritol. He has strong opinions about the debasement of values by commercialism, but he can't condemn commercialism now. He's under a kind of Faustian pact with the devil." Says Laural Whipkey: "Charlie will play until...
...Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this...
...several other members of the law faculty, have indicated that they would favor the appointment of Potter Stewart, Ohio, Justice of the Federal Court of Appeals, to succeed retiring Justice Reed to the Supreme Court. Justice Stewart is the brother of Zeph Stewart, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House...
...Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault is the Hermitage's prize display: a dazzling collection of Scythian and ancient Greek gold objects that may well be the finest in the world...
...modesty, one Vatican monsignor slyly suggested last week, especially recommended him to advertisers. Another fact might recommend him even more warmly. Once, when a playing-card maker complained that Bernardino's antigambling crusade was ruining his business, the saint suggested that he switch to making cards bearing the Greek monogram of Jesus Christ, IHS. Bernardino plugged the symbol in his sermons, and the card manufacturer waxed richer than ever...