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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gramatikakis Panayotis, a Spartan lawyer, told how a band of extreme right-wing X-ites* broke into his house last May. "We were dining at about 11 at night, when five or six men came into the house. They killed my brother, who was a royalist though I am a leftist, broke my sister's arm, my mother's arm, wounded me in the leg, wounded another sister in the cheek. Now we live with relatives, six in one room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Fields. In Roedean's cloistered life, the girls have few chances to meet outsiders, are apt to give an impression of embarrassed uppityness when they do. Miss Tanner has sought to keep Roedean unsnobbish by banning makeup and jewelry, allowing the girls little pocket money and decreeing a Spartan, uniformed existence. As in most girls' schools in Britain, the girls wear identical Navy jumpers much of the time; they get what individualism they can out of choosing the colors of their suppertime djibbahs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frightfully Gamesy | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, readied himself for a more Spartan venture than Beebe's. He was about to make a winter-long lecture tour of the U.S., in a new Lincoln, with one chauffeur and one secretary. Interviewed in Manhattan,. Journalist Churchill refused to comment on Elliott Roosevelt's observation (in As He Saw It) that "for young Churchill, conversation is strictly a unilateral operation." He also refused to comment on Sister Mary's rumored engagement to Belgium's Prince Charles. Said Journalist Churchill: "It's nobody's business. ... I think there should be five freedoms?Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Darkest America | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Doris Duke ("Richest-Girl-in-the-World") Cromwell, after five years of Spartan wartime exile, was back in Shangri-La, her marble-&-granite palace off Honolulu's Diamond Head. The short-time Hearst correspondent (she sent some earnest stories from Rome) flew in with eleven pieces of baggage and a couple of house guests, settled down among her waterfalls and fountains for a long rest. Had she plans for a future in journalism? Her considered reply: "Newspaper work is interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Homing Pigeons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...attack on next fall's housing front is turning Dr. Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, into a master strategist. When an undergraduate, he had an untidy roommate who owned fourteen suits and left them in fourteen heaps. Therefore, Dr. Perkins looks forward with sympathetic agony to the Spartan task of cramming 440 students into a house built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/28/1946 | See Source »

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