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Harvard Boxing Coach Henry Lamar yesterday claimed that the Tony De Marco-Virgil fight on Oct. 29 in the Garden should be an elimination battle rather than a welterweight title bout...
...four centuries of neglect, Jacopo Bassano is getting recognition at last. Under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, a summer-long exhibition is being given in Venice, and most of the ornate third floor of the Doge's Palace on the Piazza di San Marco is taken over by 86 religious, Biblical and scenic paintings, 13 portraits and 30 drawings by the man from Bassano...
Already cast for "The Gondoliers" are Arthur S. Waldstein as the Duke of Plaza-Toro, Elizabeth Kalkhurst as Gianetta, Jo Linch as Tessa, Alison Keith as the Duchess of Plaza-Toro, and George Brown as Marco...
...square of the city of Prato (pop. 30,586), a few miles outside Florence, stands the statue of a 14th century merchant dressed in flowing robes and holding a sheaf of bills of exchange. The merchant's name is Francesco di Marco Datini, and he is still Prato's favorite son. When he died, Datini left his whole fortune of 70,000 gold florins to the town's poor, along with his spacious house and all his papers. The interest on his capital is still shared out annually (about $1,100) among poor Pratese, but to those...
Kubla Khan ruled his far-flung empire from Korea to Hungary, using a pony express of 200,000 horses to maintain rapid communication, from his palace in Peking (which Marco Polo described with its "walls covered with gold and silver") or his pleasure-domed summer palace, with its 16-square-mile enclosed park at Shangtu (the Xanadu of Coleridge's famed verses). But because the Mongol Khans decreed that the elite Confucian scholars -who, under the Sung Dynasty, had ranked just below royalty-should be reduced to a category one degree above beggars, few Chinese scholars showed...