The story is very fishy. First of all, the name sounds Greek, while the story takes place in Stuttgart, Germany. That's not a warning per se - especially in the 1970s, there were a lot of Greeks living and working in some places in Germany, and Stuttgart surely was one of them.
But the name is written wrong, then. It would be Demitrios (or even Dimitrios depending wether you choose a classic-scholar or a modern-Greek transliteration). Still could be jet magazines fault to latinize it.
But the family name, Soupolos, sounds Greek, but doesn't exist and has no meaning. (search some Greek telephone book, like xo.gr - there is no match at all, and no close similar suggestion. Search some German telephone book ... wait, maybe they died, and without children... )
So I'm pretty sure Jet Magazine pulled it out of some editor's ... earwax.
Nowadays you find the same story transported to Tanzania.
The story is very fishy. First of all, the name sounds Greek, while the story takes place in Stuttgart, Germany. That's not a warning per se - especially in the 1970s, there were a lot of Greeks living and working in some places in Germany, and Stuttgart surely was one of them.
But the name is written wrong, then. It would be Demitrios (or even Dimitrios depending wether you choose a classic-scholar or a modern-Greek transliteration). Still could be jet magazines fault to latinize it.
But the family name, Soupolos, sounds Greek, but doesn't exist and has no meaning. (search some Greek telephone book, like xo.gr - there is no match at all, and no close similar suggestion. Search some German telephone book ... wait, maybe they died, and without children... )
So I'm pretty sure Jet Magazine pulled it out of some editor's ... earwax.
Nowadays you find the same story transported to Tanzania.