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...From the sacred city where the oldest Academy in the world was born, that Academy from which sprang both the form and the name of academy and where its founder, the divine Plate, united learning and humanity and transmitted them throughout the world, the reborn Academy of Athens protests to the whole world of learning, of the arts, and of the spirit against the unjust and inhuman con- spiracy aimed at the freedom and the independence of the land which nourished the entire world through the beginnings of the loftiest humanity and was the first spiritual mother even...
...lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...
Then the General, who during the short minute of the interview had sat on his chair "as if on tiptoe," sprang to his feet and with the brief explanation, "The troops are waiting," strode off, leaving Newsman Allen with his nugget...
...Badoglio, Chief of the General Staff, universally recognized as Italy's sagest soldier. He had opposed the Greek venture. Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service...
...Doolings' doodlebugs. A Fresno real-estate man, Richard Hulse, was so fasciriated that he organized a miniature-auto racing club in his home town, got Manhattan Publisher Charles Penn to give the little buzz-buggies a plug in his national magazine, Model Craftsman. Within 60 days, 40 clubs sprang...