Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Markos went to Kavalla in northern Greece, a tobacco center where many wretched fellow refugees from Turkey had gathered. Markos joined the Tobacco Workers' Union and the Communist Youth Organization. Nicolas Zacha-riades had just formally transformed the Socialist-Labor Party into the KKE (Kommounistikon Komma Ellados-Hellenic Communist Party) and brought it into the Third International. From then on Markos' life was the into-jail, out-ofjail of Balkan revolutionaries. Called up for army service, he went into the cavalry. "I managed to acquire good military knowledge," he says. He also acquired a dishonorable discharge...
...Books & Girls. As a youth, Jan Masaryk was a bright but inattentive student. He was good at cards, but he usually passed on the money he won to needier friends. At 20 (1906) he left Charles University and came to the U.S. where he spent seven years. He worked in an iron foundry, played the piano in a nickelodeon, managed an iron works. The seven U.S. years he summed up: "I set out to become a captain of industry but that was a great shipwreck. Making money meant nothing to me. Of course, I didn't like...
George Molvithis, 32, a former philology student at Salonika University, had played in amateur theatricals in the Communist Youth movement. Then he had gone to the hills to join the guerrillas. "Up there," he said, "two people may not even talk together. Brothers are posted to different units. The captains take all the good things. When we ate macaroni, they took...
...home village of Yannitsa in Macedonia, chestnut-haired Chryssoula Ransou, 19, had joined the Communist Youth because "it was fashionable." Chryssoula had been ordered to duty at a rebel base hospital on the Yugoslav border. There, Chryssoula, who had promised to marry a boy in Yannitsa, learned about the new rebel marriage rules...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...