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...news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Mantegna's St. George from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice...
...plant called Venus' fly trap, a native of North Carolina, was called by the great Charles Darwin "one of the most wonderful in the world." It has a two-lobed leaf which, while waiting for prey, stands open like a gaping clam shell. From the edges of the leaf two rows of slender spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands...
...protest to the destruction of the "Venus of the Yard" during the weekend Funster sculptors molded another snow woman within the protected sanctum of the frontier settlement of Dunster House last night...
Aided by the New England cold spell and a plentiful supply of snow, a group of undergraduates molded the "Venus of the Yard" in front of Grays Hall last night, only to see their creation go down before the blows of members of Colonel Apted's Yard patrol...
Experts belittled him, said that he could not have exported Carrara marble from Italy at the time he claimed. Cremonese said he could show pieces of the eye he had chipped off. But Farmer Gonon would not let him try to fit the missing pieces to his Venus. Cremonese said he would produce the model, then had trouble remembering her name; it was Anna Something. Anna Strudinka, Polish waitress in a night club, turned up, announced she had been the model, permitted her neck to be measured (it coincided with the neck of the figure) but refused...