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Early in the thirteenth, however, Leonard opened up. A solid right to the jaw rocked Hearns, who quickly retreated. Sensing the kill, Leonard closed in. A barrage of punches sent Hearns through the ropes for the first knockdown of his professional career. Leonard spent the rest of the round chasing...
Despite his shy demeanor, Barr's near dictatorial power led museum colleagues to call him "the Pope" and caused him to be described as "a man who could make enemies without moving a single muscle of his face." He used his position to campaign tirelessly against the hostility of...
Malevolent but pathetic, dying but dangerous, the buffalo looms from the canvas in all his massive black bulk, with the mythic menace of a dying Minotaur. Two linked tents frame a ceremony in a design as elegant as that on a Japanese screen. An Indian family flees from an approaching...
The turning point of Catlin's career (as he describes it with a memory notorious for its adjustments of facts to drama) came when a delegation of Indian chiefs passed through Philadelphia in 1826 on the way to Washington. Catlin was fascinated by their exotic dress, their fierce bearing...
At the edges of the crowd--for 500 have come to watch--bodybuilders no longer teenage stand, moving in and out of the 90-degree sun and the dark, cooler, canvas covered hall. They all weat T-shirts bearing the name of their gym; they all wear their hair medium...