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...follow certain rules of grammar much like those of Greek. Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek for boy. Taking his cue from the tablets' pictures, Ventris tried other combinations. To his delight, the tablets at last began to make sense...
...evidence poured in. Newsman Kilpatrick peppered Virginia's Governor John S. Battle with some 50 letters - so many that, when he had occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
Meeting in Berlin. Walking along East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, looking for an American or a British flag, Mieczyslaw was stopped by a jack-booted young Volkspolizist: "Wo gehst du hin?" Mieczyslaw did not understand the words, but he understood the tone. He planted his sneaker-clad feet wide apart and looked coldly into the officer's eyes. "I am the son of a Russian officer," he said in Polish. "Do not stop me. You cannot stop me." The Volkspolizist stepped back. Mieczyslaw strode on, into West Berlin...
...almost four years after World War II's end, Hollywood would as soon have made war movies as sown minefields in front of U.S. box offices. Then MGM's Battleground broke the jinx and, with Sands of I wo Jima and Twelve 0'Clock High, landed among the first ten moneymakers of 1950. Now the studios are releasing and shooting so many war films that faithful moviegoers may soon feel eligible for battle stars...
...Variety's list of 1950's biggest box-office grossers. The public's favorites, in order of popularity: Samson and Delilah, Battleground, King Solomon's Mines, Cheaper by the Dozen, Annie Get Your Gun, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, Sands of I wo Jima, Broken Arrow, Twelve O'Clock High...