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Smarting under the defeat of Marathon, Persia's great Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats in the summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had 1,800,000 men; modern historians say about 180,000. Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them...
Died. Mrs. Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance...
...policy is, above all, to remain on intimate, friendly terms with the U. S. So in the top ranks of British diplomats is her Ambassador to the U. S. Since 1930, Britain's representative at Washington has been Sir Ronald Lindsay, a legate of long experience in Russia. Persia, France, Egypt, Turkey, Germany. His two marriages were with U. S. women: first to Martha Cameron, daughter of former Pennsylvania Senator J. Donald Cameron, who died in 1918, next to Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of the late Colgate Hoyt of New York...
...many laboratory annexes throughout Paris, a large library, a hospital, a model monkey centre for experimental studies, and a farm at Villeneuve-l'Etang, near Paris. The Curie Cancer Center is an outgrowth of the Institute, and there are branches in Indo-China, North Africa, Greece and Persia...
Most recently illuminated of all Near Eastern art traditions is that of Iran (Persia), whose present Shah welcomes celebration of his country's bygone glories. Chief illuminator is a tall, ruddy gentleman with thin grey hair who lives and labors alternately in a Park Avenue apartment and in a truck on the craggy passes of Iran. Mr. Arthur Upham Pope is director of the ten-year-old American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology...