Word: ypsilantis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many who did fight were captured and are in government prisons. In an old Turkish jail at Ioannina there are 300 such captives. I spoke to some of them who had belonged to the guerrillas' crack Ypsilanti Brigade. One, an 18-year-old officer, trained in Bulgaria, said he was told by the Communists that the U.S. wanted Greece for a colony. 'Sometimes when losses were heavy,' he said, 'we wondered if perhaps we had made a mistake...
Outside Looking In. On the right wing of U.S. Protestantism, the Fundamentalist American Council of Churches is the farthest tip. Most of its light and heat emanate from its dynamic founder, strapping Carl McIntire. Born 43 years ago in Ypsilanti, Mich., Carl McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...
Keyholer Walter Winchell, claiming a "scoopee (we hope)," gave the rumor currency by a second-hand report that 34-year-old Frank Handy, son of the publisher of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press, "has the engagement ring in his pocket now, waiting for [Margaret's] uh-huh." Washington society began to envision a White House wedding;* some even speculated about its political usefulness...
Strapping, affable Frank Handy, who now operates a printing shop in Ypsilanti, had had dates with Margaret when he worked for the State Department as an interpreter. The engagement rumor caught up with him at a newspaper convention in Chicago. Was it true? Handy said he would have to make "one or two long-distance calls" before he could comment. Later, after news of the White House denial reached Chicago, he said: "I think I'll stand on that...
...Ypsilanti jeweler and friend of the Handy family got in the last word. Said Jeweler Cyrus C. Jenks: "Can't be so. He hasn't bought a ring from me, and, as a matter of fact, hasn't even discussed...