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...Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories of domestic animals, cereal supplies, etc., disprove the idea that the Achaeans of the Homeric period were "a body of illiterate adventurers who imposed their domination in a series of Viking raids...
...philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube, across to storied Thebes, to Troy, down through Asia Minor to defeat Darius and his Persians, on to Egypt, to India...
After the Governor's daughter, Helen Troy Bender, whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...
...Pavilion, N. Y., one of Penguin's, inner gear cases broke. In Troy, Dr. Poulter had to stop to pick up some instruments. While Penguin labored along the hairpin turns and precipitous slopes of the Berkshires, it caused the greatest traffic jam New England had ever honked...
...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...