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...Western papers, among them the San Francisco Chronicle-one of the fastest-growing dailies in the U.S.-and the big, powerful, conservative Los Angeles Times (circ. 549,000). But Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler sees little chance of collision with the invader: "I think it's more apt to be competitive with the Wall Street Journal." Estimated size of the Western Times: 32 pages, or about half the size of the New York paper. Estimated starting circulation: 100,000. Newsstand price...
...important women in his life, Picasso is as exuberant as ever. But in a sense, this most inventive of living artists has come to be one of the least controversial: his stature is so enormous, his gifts and influence so overwhelming, that even the most conservative critics are apt to forgive his occasional tendency to showmanship and shock. His very restlessness sometimes seems a form of dilettantism, but every art movement from cubism to collage to abstraction, has felt his presence. In the entire history of art, no one man has offered so many ideas or seemed to find...
...play's subtitle, Vittoria Corombona, might have been more apt than White Devil for the Loeb offering. The show was a vehicle for Jean Weston's Vittoria, and she rode it majestically. Her fury was never shouted, but came through instead as the disciplined, brittle, half-smiling anger of a real devil. Peter Haskell, though, prevented her from stealing the show. His unconventional Flamineo, more a pimp than a conspirator, lightened Webster's heavy psychologizing. As a commentator he clarified the story; as a murderer, he mad the killer's impulse seem explicable; and even when the action reached...
Realistically, Bloom concedes that he has already cornered about as much of the British washer market as he is apt to get. ("The two leaders-British Hoover and Hotpoint-have so much capital behind them that we couldn't move much farther.") In his new heater specialty, however, he faces virtually no effective competition. And some time in the future he plans to bring out a $118 dishwasher. "But the British aren't ready for this yet," he cautions. "It's too modern...
...Richardson carries his thesis too far. "Where political careers are built on favors and rewards, recriminations and reprisals," he writes, "it is natural that the political careerist should attach only secondary importance to the merits of issues. Instead of expertness in municipal finance or public transportation, he is more apt to acquire expertness in determining whether a given back calls for scratching or the knife...