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...rules of grammar much like those of Greek. Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek for boy. Taking his cue from the tablets' pictures, Ventris tried other combinations. To his delight, the tablets at last began to make sense...
...they crushed eight straight opponents in the European basketball championships. Korkija, 28, balding and sporting a Cesar Romero mustache, convulsed the crowd by jumping for nonexistent balls, plunging feet-first into the crowd, and faking stomach cramps. But whenever the chips were down, husky (6 ft. 2 in.) Otar Kor-kija dominated the backboards, and his deadly shooting (30 points in one game) gave the Russians a big lift...
...title piece, relaxation of wartime travel restrictions lures a middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...
...singer had not been near an opera house in almost a decade. To the U.S. public she was known chiefly as the lush blonde whose lighthearted warbling had been the feature of the lavish Hollywood musical The Great Waltz. Her name is Miliza Korjus (pronounced Mlit'sa Kor'-yoos...
Thoroughgoing readers of either Scribner's magazine or the New York Herald Tribune will immediately give the name of Royal Cortissoz (pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur...