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...Dallas-based Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade was somewhat more restrained. "Even if some of them died," says founder J.P. Goodwin, "at least they had a shot at freedom." That's true, says Bruce Coblentz, a professor of wildlife biology at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Coblentz allows that a few of the animals may survive in the wild. But the rest, he says, will just "die a different death than they would have otherwise...
...clothes make the man, interior decoration can sometimes be a vivid expression of the soul of a society. American Decorative Arts by Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz (Abrams; 405 pages; $65) forages through the American experience as expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated...
...discussion about California Governor Ronald Reagan's chances for the presidency, an even greater fuss is brewing over the sincerity of his hair. Purred Attorney William Coblentz, a Democratic Party strategist and regent of the University of California: "After all, Reagan is 60, and if he doesn't move soon, it'll be too late. You can dye your hair, but you can't dye corpuscles. Reagan is a menopausal Gary Grant...
Later, accompanied by four Communist officials but seemingly not intimidated by them, he drank beer and talked for 45 minutes with three old acquaintances: New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Gaston Coblentz and two British newspapermen. He was neither a Communist nor a traitor, he insisted, and he certainly had not been lured across the line. "My decision [to stay in East Germany] was only finally made after my talks with the Communist authorities," he said. "I would have been free to return if I had wanted...
...Richard E. Berlin, president of the Hearst Corp.; Richard A. Carrington Jr., publisher of the Chief's favorite paper, the Los Angeles Examiner; the Examiner's top editorial man, Editor Raymond T. Van Ettisch; Jacob D. Gortatowsky, 65, general manager of the Hearst newspapers; E. D. Coblentz, 68, of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; Walter (Front Page) Howey, editor of American Weekly...