The Coliseum faces the park and the Maine Monument and the statue of Columbus and Huntington Hartford’s Gallery of Modern Art.On the 60th Street side, midway along the beige brick wall, there is an entrance surmounted by a large chrome number 20, and 20 West 60th Street is the address of the Coliseum staff. A blue–uniformed private guard is always on duty inside the glass doors of this entrance, day and night.One Wednesday night in late June, at about three twenty in the morning, Kelp came walking eastward along West 60th Street wearing a tan raincoat, and when he was opposite the Coliseum entrance he suddenly had a fit. He went rigid, and then he fell over, and then he began to thrash around on the sidewalk. He cried, “Oh! Oh!” several times, but in a husky voice that didn’t carry far. There was no one else in sight, no pedestrians and no moving automobiles.The guard had seen Kelp through the glass doors before the fit started, and knew that Kelp had not been walking as though drunk.
