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...while he was living in Port' Ercole, Italy, in 1964 and 1965. It was an area settled by the ancient Etruscans, and was honeycombed with tombs. "Every farmer you met had an ancient pot or two in his house," Hughes recalls, "except the ones who were off in Tuscania making fakes. Tomb-robbing was the local cottage industry." Hughes made his contribution to the local economy. Buying Etruscan pots from farmers and amateur dealers at top prices of from $15 to $20 each, he eventually accumulated some 40 pieces, at least half of them fake. "My eye was very...
...statues were from a family tomb located near the town of Tuscania. One day last May, a farmer, wandering over the hills outside Tuscania, noticed a hole on top of one of the hills revealing a tomb that was unknown until some robbers broke into it. The robbers had evidently left disappointed: there was no loose gold or small art objects that could be sold to tourists. The farmer told the police, who notified authorities in Rome, who in turn notified the Villa Giulia. Next day two archaeologists climbed the hill, squeezed through the narrow hole that the robbers...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...launching this week, 100,000 people from all over the United Kingdom were headed for Clydebank. Grandstands seating 16,000 have been erected in a wheatfield opposite the shipyard. More than 1,000 invited guests will view the ceremony from the Anchor liner Tuscania, berthed at an adjacent dock. The Clyde steamers Queen Mary and King George will hold another 1,000. Microphones will carry the ceremony to every country in the world. What name No. 534 will bear the world will not know for sure until Her Majesty raises her voice to cry: "I christen thee...
TIME stands corrected. The Mercury Air Tour begins on July 14 when passengers sail from Manhattan on the S. S. Tuscania. At London they will take plane for Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfort, Nuremberg, Munich, Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, Paris-finally sailing for the U. S. on Aug. 25. Total cost of the tour will...