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...British public school who takes a holiday in Sussex to look for a lost Roman bronze. While he is tunneling away beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand for no nonsense. What can poor Danny...
...point of an extra-sharp pin. But the show's most stirring segment was an open-heart operation filmed in a University of Minnesota hospital. The patient: a pretty five-year-old blue baby named Debbie, who was wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator would take the place of Debbie's heart and lungs during the surgery. Famed Heart Surgeon Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a pioneer in such operations, went to work on Debbie...
...Faced Beasts. To bring her thesis into focus, Dorothy Norman assembled photographs of more than 100 art objects -the Assyrian Gilgamesh strangling a lion in an 8th century B.C. bas-relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years...
Admitting that The Heroic Encounter is a personal interpretation, Dorothy Norman (whose work was in part financed by the Bollingen Foundation) digs deep to find the meaning of the symbols artists have used through the ages. She finds the beasts of art to be two-faced. The regal lion she equates both with the sun and man's consciousness, as well as with "the will to power, stemming from ego, pride . . . destructive forces to be faced, overcome, transmuted." The powerful, majestic bull she sees as lunar, the great progenitor who nonetheless partakes of the dark unconscious and "the lower...
...wild disarray, stood an unmade day bed, the cold remains of a meager meal, a collection of half-filled rum and Coca-Cola bottles. Amid it all sat a tall, heavy-shouldered man whose massive head, topped by long, reddish-brown hair, gave him the appearance of an aging lion. Contented as a man in the plushest executive suite, American Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 65, probably the world's richest private citizen, went calmly about his work...