Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horseback below is Mary Barber, TIME Inc.'s string correspondent in Athens. On the morning this photograph was taken a few weeks ago she was returning from a twelve-hour night patrol with a complement of Greek Army cavalrymen in the "bandit-infested" countryside south of the town of Komotine, Thrace. The purpose of her night ride was to observe the workings of the officer observer-advisers of the U.S. Army Group in Greece. Cabled...
...cavalcade of 50 horsemen, armed with six Bren guns, eight Thompsons and rifles, trotted down Komotine's cobbled streets, the inhabitants hung out of their windows to see what was happening. Curfew was in force because the rebels had shelled the town with 65 mm. cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
...Heart. Last week in San Jose, Calif., newsboys delivered pledge cards to every home in town, as their part in a nationwide drive to raise $60 million for the United Nations Appeal for Children. Citizens of Aiken, S.C. began block-by-block canvassing to collect food & clothing for their adopted French city of Morlaix. Girl Scouts were campaigning to assemble 100,000 clothing kits for Europe...
...small meeting-one hundred Negroes and whites gathered in a seedy little Negro church in the heart of the Negro district. But policemen guarded the doors; others prowled the darkness outside. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor had declared roundly: "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies...
...body. Legend had it that when Pike was killed in the capture of York (now Toronto) by his forces, his body was shipped back to Sackets Harbor in a hogshead of whiskey.* In 1909, the cemetery in which he was buried was moved to another section of the town. Of 130 corpses, only four-not including Zeb Pike's-were positively identified. The historian recalled that among the bodies moved was one apparently submerged in alcohol in a metal casket. The casket's glass top was broken in disinterment, said he, and the body, exposed...