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...word from the mountains was nike -victory. The Grammos battle was officially over. Clambering up the stark, grey slope of Grammos' highest peak, weary, tattered Greek soldiers unfurled the blue and white national flag. Some crossed themselves gratefully; others wept...
...Moon. Following army spearheads the next day, the observation group visited Markos' former capital, Aetomilitsa, a typical mountain village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
...nation's taxicab business has slumped as much as 25% below the normal summer slack. Parmelee Transportation Co., biggest U.S. company, with 4,167 cabs in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, figures that this year's net may go as low as $500,000 (its boom-peak net: $2,000,000 in 1946). For many a smaller company, trying to meet more than doubled postwar costs on prewar fares, the slump means...
Died. May de Sousa, 66, light-opera favorite at the turn of the century; of starvation; in a Chicago charity ward. A detective's daughter, she first sang in vaudeville, moved on to Broadway, hit her peak touring Europe in such productions as The Wizard of Oz and The Tenderfoot. She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman...
Back in 1939, unable to sell their higher-priced ($15.75 a dozen and up) output of 100 dozen a week, they desperately turned to making a skirt that would retail for $1. A flood of orders, amounting to 700 dozen on one peak day, showed what could be done on high-volume output with low profit per unit...