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...million worth of art by Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ben Shahn. When his collection outgrew his home and factory, Barnes built a marble temple to house it in suburban Merion, surrounded the place with ferocious police dogs and a ten-foot "spite wall." Ostensibly the collection was a public institution, entitled to tax exemption, but the tiny part of the public that saw it was limited entirely by Barnes's whims...
...Roman clang and massiveness, Coriolanus tells the tale of an inhumanly prideful patrician who almost singlehanded repels the invading Volscians, later is rejected by the fickle people he saved, vents his contempt by joining the enemy to turn on them. At the close, Sir Laurence dangles headfirst from a ten-foot rostrum while he is stabbed to death in a blood-drenched mob scene that is powerfully-and consciously-reminiscent of the battering of Mussolini's body...
...Plants. That the Post gets out at all is a minor miracle. Beneath a giant Moreton Bay fig tree in Port Moresby (pop. 7,000), the Post's termite-honeycombed headquarters has been flooded eight times during monsoons. Twice the composing room has been invaded by serpents-a ten-foot python, a rare and venomous taipan-which were pelted to death by ingots of type metal. One night a horde of winged ants, attracted by the lights, swarmed in to lay a living veneer on the Linotype machines, jam the works with their bodies; a mechanic imported from Australia...
...many as 200 police will guard the ten-foot fence and entrances which surround the seating area at the Field House, to keep anyone without a ticket from entering. In addition, three cordons of police will surround the Field House itself, and others will circulate in the crowd...
...YORK, Feb. 6-The Crimson quintet managed to tie a tenacious Columbia team in the final three seconds of regulation play on George Harrington's ten-foot jump shot here tonight and then break loose in the first overtime...