Art: Arch Man

A ferreting real estate agent with an eviction notice scaled the highest point on Manhattan, a cliff known to oldsters as God's Thumb, to city directories as Washington Heights, and flushed Sculptor George Grey Barnard into unexpected publicity last week.

The son of a Presbyterian minister, George Grey Barnard was born 67 years ago in Bellefonte, Pa., now famed as the "hell hole" of trans-Appalachian aviation. He spent his early childhood and learned taxidermy in that delight of small-time comedians, Kankakee, Ill. After studying sculpture...

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