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...curl up with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and pinpointing their references. Italian Entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Serpieri in 1864 rediscovered the ancient mines of Laurium near Athens, from which the classical Athenians extracted their wealth and the lead needed to build their fleet. Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther located copper on Cyprus by reading Latin manuscripts. The latest to cash in on the classics is a short, stocky Greek named Alexander Xenarios, who spent 30 years roaming Greece and making minor finds before he hit the jackpot: a deposit in northern Greece's Chalcidice district estimated...
...second period the game got louder and funnier. After Yale had failed to score with a two-man advantage, Bill Lamarche drilled in his own rebound at the five minute mark to make it 5-2 Harvard. But with both Godfrey Wood and the Crimson defense napping Steve Gunther got the goal back for Yale...
...scriptwriters: Reporter Ryan, Novelists James Jones and Remain Gary, Scenarists David Pursall and Jack Seddon. The directors: Elmo Williams, Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald. Among the advisers: General d'Armee Pierre Koenig, Lieut. General James Gavin, Lord Lovat, General Gunther Blumentritt, Frau Lucie-Maria Rommel. A few of the stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Curt Jurgens, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Peter Lawford, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stuart Whitman, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Sal Mineo, Tommy...
Terrified by the U.S.A. Encouraged by Inside Europe's success, Gunther tackled Asia next-even though he had never been there. He spent ten months touring most of Asia, living off the proceeds from magazine articles he wrote along the way. When Inside Asia appeared in 1939, Japanese censors meticulously snipped offending passages out of every copy sold in Japan, and a self-appointed Chinese publisher pirated the book by photographing the American edition, then distributing copies in China...
...Gunther considers Inside Asia the best of his Insides; Inside U. S. A. presented the most problems. "The United States," Gunther writes, "lay like a cobra before me, seductive, terrifying and immense." Gunther managed to examine every city with a population greater than 200,000, but some were more receptive than others. Though he was invited in Texas to address a joint session of the legislature, in Tennessee Senator Kenneth McKellar threw him out of his office. Gunther found Americans more eager to be interviewed than other peoples, but he also found them more politically naive. Inside...