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...Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum sound was most elaborate. Visitors, ushered in by an attendant, strolled through a labyrinthine gallery designed (by Lee Simonson) like a Coney Island house of mystery. As they paused before each picture, lights flashed on and a concealed sound mechanism honked a short lecture describing its notable points. No money saver, this sound-equipped tour, which ranged from Greek sculpture to Cézanne apples, cost about $14,000 ($10,000 of it a grant from the Carnegie Corp...
...reconnaissance patrols Captain Wermuth, from a foxhole, spotted a long line of Japanese crossing a ridge. "I worked them over with my tommy gun," said he, "and got at least 30 like ducks in a Coney Island shooting gallery." Attracted by the shooting, five Filipino scouts rushed to the scene, helped Arthur Wermuth polish off "50 or 60" more of the enemy party...
Connoisseurs looked approvingly at tankards functionally designed in 1700 by Silversmiths David Jesse and John Coney, clucked with admiration over Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley portraits. Loudest praise was brought forth by the results of Donor Karolik's greatest hobby, 18th-Century furniture. Some experts from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New England pronounced it second only to the huge (148 rooms) private collection of Wilmington's Henry F. du Pont. Each of the 125 exhibits showed the care in selection which Karolik had considered so necessary...
Dizziest part of the evening comes during the half hour before the regular performance starts, when Comic Frank Libuse runs wild as "head usher," people climb a ladder to reach their box, a horde of customers have to go through a Coney Island Crazy House (treadmills, wobbly stairs, wind machines) to get to their seats...
...YORK--Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, 37, who rose to the vice-presidency in Brooklyn's Murder, Inc., through hard work and viciousness, bungled an attempt to escape police guards today and plunged from the sixth story of a Coney Island Hotel to a death as sudden as any he had inflicted on his known 11 victims...