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...industry has attracted hungry investors. "Those Wall Street houses are after all of us to go public," says Random House President Bennett Cerf. "They go around waving certified checks in publishers' faces-and I've never seen a publisher yet that could resist a certified check." Ran dom House could not resist, put some 222,060 shares of its stock on sale last October for 11¼. It was eagerly snapped up, now sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling at about 27. The stock...
...certainly an anti-Communist." From the publisher of San Francisco's Chinese World, President Chiang Kai-shek received a cable deploring Lei's arrest as "one of the great mistakes of your career." And even within Chiang's government there were those who doubted the wis dom of the move. For by this blunder, the Nationalists stood to jeopardize much of the sympathy Chiang's regime had built up slowly and painfully in its years of exile in Formosa...
...Last week, as evidence of what Lurçat has done for the village, Aubusson had on view the most lavish display of local tapestries ever assembled: 550 brilliantly rich pieces in the full range of designs from representational to abstract by such artists as Gromaire, Dom Robert, Prassinos, Singier, Tourliere and, of course, Lurçat himself...
Says the Very Rev. Dom Aelred Gra ham, prior of the Portsmouth Priory, a Benedictine monastery whose monks run the exclusive Portsmouth Priory School, which annually sends the majority of its graduates to non-Catholic colleges (top favorite: Harvard) : "Sooner or later, boys are going to have to face the challenge of the unbelieving modern world. The ques tion is: Where are they going to do it? St. Thomas Aquinas stated that an inade quate argument for religion invites the derision of nonbelievers. If a boy at a Catholic college has the impression that his religious problems are not being...
...Added Dom Aelred: "Educators and educated alike should be preoccupied with the truth. The Catholic Church has al ways claimed that she has nothing to fear from the truth. If these two propositions were kept in mind, then the secular v. the Catholic college controversies might largely disappear...