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...last century, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale of his next crime: "When is a horse most like a stamp collection?" Answer: When it's a hobby horse (a reference to Hobby Airport in Houston...
...those shark-grinning popsies before whose dumpy and threatening torsos so much critical rhapsody has been laid, three of the main paintings (owned by Australia, Iran and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City) are missing. Nor do we get to see Police Gazette, 1954-55, or Gotham News, 1955-56, the impacted, jostling city paintings that initiated de Kooning's bravura landscapes of the late '50s. With these and other gaps, one gets a less than full picture of the artist at his best, up to his 60th year. By the time the show gets...
...record. 'Of course,' Duffy said, 'they're more friendly when you win.' " Devaney won immediately and spectacularly. After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, the Cornhuskers took nine of eleven games in Devaney's first year and triumphed 36-34 in the Gotham Bowl, over Miami, incidentally. Nebraska won the national championship in 1970 and repeated in 1971. The latter edition is commonly thought of as the best college football team of all (a panel of coaches so voted last year), and it is the mark by which the current group is being...
...hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham, a well-loved 77-year-old structure that is being totally rebuilt. Its presidential suite will rent for $1,750 a night, plus tax. Le Big Boss, who studied philosophy and psychology before switching to economics at the University of Zurich, says, "A hotel is the guest room...
...proved successful in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Detroit and Windsor, Ont. (Canadian graffiti?), the "spray-on, wipe-off' Gobbler is right now being tested on the New York City subways, the end of the line. If it works there, its Australian inventor, Norman Shuttleworth, will be the Emperor of Gotham. No fame will equal his. His name will appear on every wall in the city. And then, quickly and easily, it will be gone...