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...Wynn Show (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m.) covers much the same ground with the same sentimental tarpaulin. Old Vaudevillian Wynn, who last year at 70 rose up as a dramatic actor in The Great Man, brings only hints of his legendary Palace clowning to his new home-a simple frame house in a small college town. As a kindly widower raising two grand-daughters-and all sorts of sagacious Cain with the town fathers-Wynn emits enough warmth to heat Buffalo for a month. It is as comedy that the show...
...They tore off the tarpaulin and started pulling people into the street. One of my colleagues, Ibrahim Hashim, the Arab Union's Deputy Premier, who was sitting beside me, died from a stone hit in the head. Everyone who was pulled down was cut to bits. I saw a young German or Swiss of about 30 grabbed by the head and pulled down by the mob. About eight people started slashing and stabbing him and beating him with rods. Then they cut off his head. I did not see the death of the American, Burns, but later...
...escape of La Grande Jatte, Rich owed thanks to Fellow Director d'Harnoncourt, who rounded up a volunteer crew of eleven to wrestle the huge, glass-covered, 10-ft.-long painting (weight: more than 500 Ibs.) from its temporary wooden frame, cover it with paper and tarpaulin against smoke and water stains and lug it to safety. To the credit of the museum staff, who struggled through smoke and water to carry paintings out of danger, only nine paintings out of a total of over 2,000 worth more than $4,000,000 were destroyed or damaged...
...rain of the past two days is likely to be more harmful to the spectators than to the players, for a tarpaulin has covered the field most of the week. The H.A.A. reports that the turf is in perfect shape except for a large "Y" burned in at midfield Wednesday night...
...Outcha go, buddy", the guy in the spotted white suit was insisting, shaking the bed back and forth. In the other room, another man was shoving the furniture into a corner, and stood poised, about to throw a dirty tarpaulin over the collection. It was eight in the morning and, bleary-eyed and protesting, Mockmouse was sent out into the snow with what books he could collect...