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...with a meal prepared by Sister Irene John and Kenneth pushed on on, circling Chicago's Sky Harbor airport-finally waggled their wings in triumphant acknowledgment of the cheers they knew were coming from the crowd below. Thus, last week, did the Family Hunter of Sparta, Ill., break the endurance record of 420 hr. 21 min. set last year by Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forrest O'Brine in the St. Louis Robin (TIME...
Lysistrata (Fay Bainter), disgusted by 20 years of war between Athens and the cities of Sparta, Thebes and Corinth, summoned the women of these towns to meet her in Mr. Bel Geddes' rich-hued, towering Acropolis. The older women arrived first, overpowered the guards, seized the citadel and the treasury. Somewhat tardily, the sleepy-eyed belles of Athens appeared, followed by big-boned Spartan women, country girls from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should...
...When I arrived in Sparta I said, 'Show me Sparta.' There wasn't any. The Eurotas rolled by, a pretty, limpid stream, but about as wide as this piece of furniture. In the museum, which is about as large as this room, there are a statue and a vase, both Attic. They're all that Sparta has left. I expected to find a countryside as dour as [the ancient Spartans], but no ?great fertility, vines bearing enormous grapes. And I crossed the Taigeta, which is something of a mountain, I assure you, and arrived at a place called something...
...Another wholesale-village-purchaser is Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip who, a decade ago, bought century-old Sparta, near Scarberouah-on-Hudson, to rid himself of unwanted neighbors...
Johnny Hayes, in 1908, ran the most exciting marathon since the one in 480 B.C., whereby Phidippides carried the news of a battle over cliff roads to Sparta. The 1908 marathon was run over English high ways from Windsor Castle past Slough, Wexham, Heath, Ruislip. Wembley, to a stadium 26 miles and 480 yards from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number...