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Running along the 10-foot-high ceiling, from a small trap door near Room 27 to the skylight above the staircase, the prints, made by a small bare foot, show up plainly against the fresh white paint...
Other finds included a foot-high statuet of ivory, first Greek copy ever found of the Apollo Lykeos; the bronze shield of Brasidas, captured at the Battle of Pylos in 425 B.C.; and a statue base bearing the epigram of Simonides, familiar to many a schoolboy: A marvelous great light shone for the Athenians when Harmodios and Aristogeiton slew Hipparchus...
From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...
...Mark Sullivan's living-room bookcase now stands a foot-high memento of one such trip-an inscribed photograph of President Hoover happily hauling in a whopper (see cut, p. 41). But his relations with Herbert Hocver as President are not yet history to Mark Sullivan, and he will discuss them only casually...
...professor turned in the doorway, shrugging his shoulders into his topcoat. He smiled at the three section men gathered around the long table with the neat foot-high piles of blue books. His hand was on the knob as he said: "Be kind, gentlemen, but be, ha --ha, not too kind...