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Further, the Princeton group wished to explore the archaeological resources of this area especially to uncover traces of the original Lydian city, but the World War, and later, the Turko-Greek conflicts continually discouraged their efforts. One of the members of the Princeton group was George Chase, who later became a professor of Archaeology here and a Dean of the GSAS. Chase's administrative duties prevented him from tracking down the Lydian earthware that the expedition had discovered but had left at the site. Instead, in 1938, he suggested to his then-assistant, Professor Hanfmann, that a return trip...
...meantime, Michales' teen-age nephew has killed Nuri Bey's nephew, and the Turko-Cretan blood bath has begun. Kazantzakis is not one to blink the horrors of war. Eyes are gouged, heads are lopped, women are raped, priests are lynched, villages are burned...
...Miss Turko. It did, indeed. Konomi's Hot Springs, reared at a cost of half a million dollars and opened last April, brought benefits to Tokyo far beyond those of the mountains and the open sea. There, thanks to Konomi, Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves...
...royal convoy, the frigate Surprise, carrying Princess Elizabeth, escorted by the frigate Magpie, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh, put into Turko-Limano for a six-day unofficial visit to Greece and the duke's family...
...after General Dwight Eisenhower had moved on to the European invasion command in London. What Wilson acquired included some first-class tactical worries, headaching problems of supply, a set of tarnished political problems. All of these and more were wrapped up in a gargantuan geographic command, running from the Turko-Syrian border through the Mediterranean and across Africa to Dakar. Any operation against Europe from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles would be his problem...