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Queen's Boudoir. For five seasons Dr. Blegen's group has been working at a site near Pylos in southern Greece, where the ruins of a Mycenaean palace cover the top of a hill. Most famous inhabitant of Pylos was King Nestor of the Iliad, and it is probable that the palace once belonged to him and his Queen. Eurydice. The building, which had two floors, was burned to the ground after Nestor's death, but the blacked ruins can still tell much about the people who lived there...
Earlier digs uncovered the great hall where Nestor held court; this season the workers moved to the eastern wing of the palace. As their shovels cleared the floors of a suite of rooms, they sensed the feminine touch. "Nestorina [Mrs. Nestor]," they called to Dr. Blegen...
...FRANK NESTOR The Bronx...
...earnest after the publication in 1951 of a book concerning another great discovery. The book was about the work of Professor Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati, who had come across 600 tablets while excavating the site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious that Knossos on the island of Crete and Pylos on the mainland of Greece had some close connection. But scholars have...
...world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told him that girl mush and Tom Swift just did not mix. To many a saddened fan it seemed best that Tom should...