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Strangers Beware. The expedition leader was Gene Savoy, a 37-year-old explorer from Portland, Ore. For five years, Savoy has been tramping the Peruvian Andes, turning up everything from three pre-Inca cities to a 100-ft.-wide pre-Inca highway. In 1963 he joined forces with Peruvian Explorer Antonio Santander Cascelli, 62, and together they started hunting for Vilcabamba. Old records seemed to point to a forbidding area northwest of Machu Picchu, called the Plain of the Spirits...
...weeks ago, Savoy and Santander reached the Plain of the Spirits by mule team and made contact with some local Indians. At first, the Indians refused to guide them. Tribal legend said that anyone who escorted strangers into the plain would soon die. But after some powerful persuasion, the Indians agreed to join the expedition. They led Savoy and Santander on a three-day march through the jungle to the first moss-covered ruins of what may be Vilcabamba. "We couldn't believe our eyes," says Savoy. "Each day, it became more fantastic...
...Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage. It was the time when Jazz Singer Anita O'Day told her audiences...
Then there was Dr. Gérard Savoy, who was called in to treat Winnie in Lausanne in 1958, when she had a nervous breakdown. Though Dr. Savoy conveniently forgot to mention that his license had just been suspended for taking kickbacks from a nurse, he went on Winnie's payroll at $1,500 a month...
...Chaffe paced the Crimson nordic squad to an unprecedented second place cross country finish on a nine mile course in the Savoy State Forest. Chaffe finished third in 56:11 only 3:46 behind the winner, Ed Williams of Dartmouth. The three other Crimson entrants all finished in the top third of the field, to round out the most successful single race in the team's history...