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Thus, one night last week, in a manner as bizarre as a movie script, the Communists kidnaped one of the West's most effective operators in the clandestine war fought in Berlin's cafés and back rooms...
...ways in which you can distinguish Prince Valiant from more familar sagebrush sages. First of all, the savages are Nordies (of sorts) and sport horns in lieu of feathers. In fact, there are horns everywhere. On helmets, as drinking cups and bugles--horns are on everything except the script, which wears a beard. The second distinguishing detail is the frank presentation of propaganda for the Bolivian tin interests. What isn't made of horn in the picture is sure to be tin, including swords, shields, prison bars and armor...
Ever since 1900, when Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans first discovered the hundreds of clay tablets in the ruins of King Minos' great palace at Knossos, Crete, scholars have been puzzling over a mystery. Some of the tablets bear a type of script that Evans named Linear A. Others bear symbols that indicate another language, which Evans called Linear B. What sort of language is it, and what do the tablets say? For half a century, scholars have been guessing...
...Cincinnati, who had come across 600 tablets while excavating the site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious that Knossos on the island of Crete and Pylos on the mainland of Greece had some close connection. But scholars have long assumed that the Achaeans were illiterate, for Homer gives little real indication that his heroes could write. The tablets, concluded the scholars, were therefore probably...
...round. Disgusted, Willie weds the high-diver, but Joe soon has her right back where he wants her. Before it all ends, Willie is left in the arms of a LIFE photographer (George Nader)-a nice, steady young fellow of the vine-covered-cottage type, according to the script...