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George Gloss, a thickset, scholarly-looking bookseller who owns and runs the Brattle, is waging a desperate final-hour battle to save the archaic Sears Crescent, a cluster of buildings which houses his and other historic book stalls...
...years ago that Director Otto Karl Bach started his search for a painting that would fit in with his tiny cluster of top treasures, ranging from a Veronese and a Tintoretto to a Degas and a Renoir. He was not necessarily looking for a big name, but at the Wildenstein Gallery in Manhattan he happened to spot the Rembrandt in its marvelously fussy 17th century frame. The price for the painting was $95,000, but the gallery was willing to sell it on the installment plan. By last week the museum had collected from private gifts two-thirds...
...their son's piano teacher, dropped in on the famous "wild beast" exhibition that had outraged the Paris critics. As the piano teacher, now Mrs. Therese Jalenko of San Francisco, remembers the day, the four visitors heard derisive laughter the minute they entered the gallery, found a cluster of sneering viewers around Matisse's Woman with a Hat (see color). Sarah grew to love the painting, happened to be in the gallery a few days later when Matisse made his one and only visit. Sarah soon found herself in deep conversation with the painter, who told her that...
...pull off this daring gamble-which so far has cost Seibu $8,000,000-Tsutsumi is relying on a retailing formula that blends East and West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan...
...brink of Glacier 511, below the peak of Peru's highest (22,205 ft.) mountain, a block of ice the size of two Empire State Buildings had broken loose with an explosive crack and plunged down the mountainside into a funnel-like canyon above a cluster of eight villages around Ranrahirca (pop. 2,456, according to last July's census). As it tumbled, the ice mass smashed into house-sized chunks, knocked loose millions of tons of boulders and mud, and grew into one of the endless huaycos (landslides) that make life on Peru...