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...later it was accepted by many quite orthodox Christian theologians. A 2nd century heretic named Marcion was the first Christian to make a compilation of authentic gospels and epistles into a single testament that excluded the many apocryphal writings about Christ. Marcion's version of the scriptural canon was rejected by the church, but he nonetheless deserves to be remembered as the founder of New Testament textual criticism...
...CANON) JOHN E. WILKINSON
Biggest Seller. Unlike Canon, some Japanese were still turning out the cheap and shoddy. Aware that his own export market could be ruined by poor Japanese cameras, Mitarai pressed for industry controls. In 1954, largely at his persuasion, the government organized the Japanese Camera Industry Association, which closely scrutinizes output, tries to keep poor models off the world market...
Mitarai is capable of odd business gestures. Last year, after dominating Japan's high-priced camera market (85% of sales), Canon moved into the medium-priced field with the sleek 35-mm. Canonet (U.S. retail price: $112). So good was the Canonet that competitors petitioned the Japanese government to bar it from the market on the ground that it would drive them out of business. The government refused, but Mitarai generously volunteered to hold up the introduction of the Canonet for five months until other firms could improve their own models. Even so, the Canonet has become Japan...
...growth delights Mitarai, of course. But most memorable to him, since the old Japanese reputation still rankled, is the occasion two years ago when he took the Canonet, along with a 2000-mm. television zoom lens, a 50-mm. lens four times faster than the human eye, and other Canon products to the Cologne Photokina Exhibit. It was a tough audience of German cameramakers to play to. Crows Mitarai: "We demonstrated, and the Europeans admitted, that Japanese products were no longer mere improved copies. They were based on original techniques...