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...housepainter named John Politis, 34, was doing all right until he met a girl named Toga. Now he would never walk again without crutches. He would never talk again, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Some months ago he brought back a girl guerrilla named Asimo Kostopoulou, who fought under the nom de guerre of Toga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Toga recovered, left the cave and returned to Athens, where she was picked up by the police. She blabbed the cave's location and police raided it just as Politis, a short distance away in his truck, was signaling to guerillas there with a flashlight. Arrested, Politis threw himself beneath the wheels of a police car and was packed off to the hospital with a mangled left leg. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

During all the months that followed, Communist Politis was kept in solitary confinemen, permitted to speak to no one, even while he was hospitalzed. Recently he was brought into the office of the Security Police and confronted with toga. He took one look at her and said, "Remove her from the room. I'll talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...help just stayed away. There were 20,000 absentees in Detroit automobile plants on the day after the heat wave began. Attendance at big-league baseball games dwindled. Women went on sitting under beauty-parlor hair dryers (see cut) but only after stripping off half their clothes and donning toga-like sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Heat Wave | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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