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...Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He had found a way to make three times the money in one-tenth the time. Anyway, he was tired of being chased out on all sorts of assignments by "them stupid bastards on the city desk." Said he: "I should be shooting eight-foot hollyhocks." So he walked into Managing Editor Ed Stone's office and quit. P-I staffers threw a party for him, and the management gave him a wrist watch. Even "them stupid bastards" were sorry...
...Russian Marc Chagall (TIME, Oct. 26) showed an eight-foot, 1917 portrait of himself astride his wife's shoulders, and giggling. Under it was a 1941 photograph by Manhattan's George Platt Lynes of Art ist Chagall, still giggling, behind a bouquet of flowers...
...mortuary door, which he calls "That Which," take him as long as ten years to finish. The mortuary door last month won a $500 prize at the Institute (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1938 came in third in the Carnegie International's popularity contest. It's an eight-foot picture of a decayed and time-cracked surface, on which detail swarms like ants, with an ancient-looking, heavily jeweled hand caressing the battered molding...
Soon a wrecking crew will start tearing down the big grey, circular building that has stood on the Battery for 134 years. Its solid, eight-foot walls will be leveled to make way for the wide approaches to Manhattan's new vehicular tunnel under the East River to Brooklyn...
...deer with which Mr. Lorillard had stocked the place grew so tame that they ate out of people's hands, ceased to be sporting shots. Partridge, pheasants, turkeys took off for good over the park's eight-foot fence. The striped bass in the lake were soon depleted. But Mr. Lorillard built a golf course and a toboggan slide...