Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Contributing Editor Michael -(TM) Demarest wrote this week's cover story on Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Spyros Niarchos and the boom in postwar shipping, he brought to his subject an understanding and feeling that came from long personal experience at sea. Mike spent three of the World War II years sailing in all classes of merchantmen, but mostly in tankers, about the Atlantic and Pacific...
...sent to England for his education by a grandfather who was an ardent Anglophile. The processing began at a Spartan boarding school in Berkshire, where he was drilled with a wooden rifle at sunup by a World War I sergeant major, introduced to Latin at eight and Greek at nine...
...oldest of British public schools. There he revolted against concentrated study of dead languages and. between Nazi air raids on nearby Coventry, began to specialize in English literature. After classes, Mike, then a lanky teenager, carried a rifle in the Rugby Home Guard, commanded by a Greek professor who was constantly plotting the defense of the school according to the tactics of the Peloponnesian...
...refurbished hideout on the Ionian isle of Corfu, Greece's King Paul and pert Queen Frederika entertained two neighbors with whom they were once not even on speaking terms. Their guests: Yugoslavia's Dictator Tito and his buxom mate Jovanka. Convoyed constantly and zealously by security-mad Greek cops, Frederika and Jovanka climbed into a tiny motorboat, Paul and Tito into another, raced each other along Corfu's waterfront. Ashore, hosts and guests buzzed about merrily in two M.G. sports cars, tops down, good will...
...ashore. After dark, white-gloved stewards moved unobtrusively among the guests in a softly lighted dining room hung with French impressionist paintings. Pushed by gentle winds, the Creole headed at week's end for the island of Mallorca. the golden isle of the Hesperides, to which Hercules, of Greek legend, once sailed in search of the Golden Apples...