When she was eleven, Margaret Bilotti, stage-struck elder daughter of a Manhattan construction worker, collaborated with another East Side youngster in writing a play, the proceeds to buy Christmas ...

No wanton wench was Cleopatra but a politician whose love of Egypt was greater than the love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa ...

Rare and monstrous, a lively two-headed turtle last week was givingFlorida herpetologists and animal behaviorists instructive entertainment. Besides having two heads, the creature has two pair of ...

Costa Ricans thanked the petulance of a neighboring dictator for an elegant revision of the national diet. It used to consist chiefly of beef. But Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza changed that. Wounded by ...

“Don’t dust off that statue!” went the cartoon in an Argentine magazine. “That’s the President himself!” Bitter jokes are beginning to revolve around President Arturo Illia, 63, the gentle country ...

In a Manhattan apartment, two one-inch turtles were kept in a glass bowl by Peter Mathews. writer. One of the turtles was named Kalmikoff (after the Russian wrestler) because he repeatedly escaped ...

Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the “Sidewalks of New York.” Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals’ entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming ...

At Houston, Miss, a Mrs. C. keeps a tub of water in her back yard for an extraordinary purpose. It is a ducking tub for her five-year-old son. Every time he feels uncomfortable he jumps in, clothes & ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is no stranger to notable visitors, but they had an especially memorable meet-up between two greats when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Michelangelo paid ...

Some publicity stunts are really, really dumb. Other publicity stunts involve building a 12-foot Pizza Thrower and realizing your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle dreams. Thank you, Pizza Hut, for ...

The Central Rockies and the Midwest are bracing for a major blizzard Wednesday, with 6-12 inches of snow expected from Minnesota to Michigan. Northern Minnesota is already buried under 6-22 inches of ...

<br>This past year, Susan Orlean (the <em>New Yorker</em> writer played by Meryl Streep in <em>Adaptation</em>) wrote an entire book about the history of this star ...