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Turning lost into profit, Bright, now 23, has made a career of designing mazes. Greg Bright's Maze Book, a collection of his designs, is a current In book in London, and will be published next week by Pantheon Books in the U.S. For those who can afford the real thing-say, an acre complex of tortuous passages between tall, dense hedges-Bright will produce an original design costing around $10,000 (materials and labor not included). His latest project, commissioned by the wealthy Lord...
...Remember the difference between the Parthenon and the Pantheon...
...world. The Robertson laurels go to "Manchester Jack," the first lion tamer (1835); M. Jolly-Bellin, first dry cleaner (1849); William Kemmler, first man to die in the electric chair (1890), and the late great George Crum, inventor of the first potato chip (1853). Surrounding these immortals is a pantheon of some 6,000 achievers and achievements, each one a monument to ingenuity or perversity. En masse, they provide the best argument settler since the first dictionary (Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, 1604). After The Book of Firsts, there should be no further disputes about any of the following...
SCAPINO. The incredibly nimble Jim Dale joins that select pantheon of comic agility, men like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, who clowned in flawless body English...
...COMPLETE GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Commentary by Joseph Campbell. Illustrations by Josef Scharl. 864 pages. Pantheon...