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...shared with Henry James as well, of the garden metaphor and the English park. The writing in these two stories is quite skillful, at times almost beautiful. "Lions, Leaves, Roses..." ends especially well with a dizzying sense of infinite space and possibility: "Leaves, words, people, shadows, whirled together towards autumn and the solstice...
TREASURY OF AMERICAN DESIGN hy Clarence P. Hornung. Introduction by Holger Cahill. 2 vols., 846 pages. Abrams. $42.50. In the autumn of 1935, the U.S. Government launched another of its many projects to relieve Depression unemployment. This time the target of its aid was the commercial artist, 300 of whom were put to work rendering some of the finest examples of native American decorative art. Over 17,000 drawings were made, and in 1950 The Index of American Design was published, using a scant 3% of these illustrations. Now the Index has been expanded into two handsome volumes that touch...
...millions of football widows around the U.S. have long been resigned to hearing the voices of sportscasters booming from television sets and radios on autumn Saturdays, Sundays and Monday evenings. Over the balance of the week, however, a subtle peace usually reigns, broken only occasionally when a dedicated fan tunes in to basketball and hockey games. Now even that peace is threatened: Mattel Inc. of Los Angeles has introduced a Talking Football game that makes it possible for the football widow to hear the maddening tones of the football announcer at any hour on any day of the week...
...embraces at least as wide a variety of climate. There can be few more vivid ways of finding this out than to fly suddenly down from Peking to Canton in the early days of November, exchanging the brisk cold, the austere browns and russets of a northern autumn for the rich greens and the sensuous, languid heat of the tropics. The contrast is greater than moving from New England to Miami at the same time of the year. To leave Peking is to leave an almost Russian-style city ?monumental, dogmatically laid out along enormous avenues, dwarfing the population...
Sakowitz has also attracted shoppers by staging European-angled promotions every autumn. Last month, as part of an Italian Renaissance promo, he decorated the main downtown Houston store with $3,000,000 worth of borrowed Renaissance paintings and tapestries. (Once inside the store, shoppers bought plenty of Italian and French dresses that were specially designed for the promotion, as well as bed linens with prints of Leonardo's inventions and Italian silk ties with the insigne of the House of Borgia.) This week, in Sakowitz's annual wine auction, the store will sell off rare vintages, including...