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...reply, Amati propped up a pair of buffalo horns and insulting poems in his window; the display drew him an eight-month suspended sentence. His patience gone, Amati then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property. Whatever his fate, the butcher's meaty argument has obviously touched millions of gesticulating Italians. In fact, his business has now doubled...
...Beach's top architect, Morris Lapidus, from whose drawing board have sprung such pacesetting superhotels as the $40 million Fontainebleau, the $20 million Americana (in nearby Bal Harbour) and the $12 million Eden Roc, has the same idea. He explains: "I'm not designing hotels. I'm designing stage settings on which people will play out their two-week vacations...
...comparing picture with puzzle, puzzlers could assemble pieces by color or line, put the whole thing together in jig time. Easier to win at than solitaire and less demanding than a novel, it was a relaxing remedy for rainy afternoons and hospital confinements. But that was before Springbok Editions sprung its pasteboard version of Jackson Pollock's "Convergence...
Three-Month Wait. Simon had sprung to his feet. "I have not finished bidding," he protested...
Back in December, Princeton's basketball team lost to top-ranked Michigan a scant two points, but the experts "fluke" after the Tigers had sprung the upset of the year, Last Saturday Princeton bombarded ranked Providence, 109 to 69, win the Eastern regionals of the NCAA basketball tournament, but the keptics were still unconvinced...