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THIS week's other color story, in National Affairs, followed a more usual pattern. TIME'S editors decided that they wanted a spread that would get behind the familiar scenes of Diamond Head and Waikiki Beach, chose for the job the skilled Werner Stoy, who, after 19 years in the islands, is recognized as Hawaii's top photographer. With Associate Editor Alvin Josephy, Stoy traveled to every one of the major islands, concentrated on getting pictures that show how Hawaiians live. The result: a fresh, close look at the people of the U.S.'s 50th state...
...three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor can usually wangle 100 rupees ($21) for a favorable story, e.g., a puff with picture of a chieftain's son who has just passed his university exams...
Manhattan's abstract expressionists have a new forum in the shape of a magazine with a softly assertive title: It Is Editor and Publisher: Philip G. Pavia, a Greenwich Village sculptor blessed with a private income, who loads his $2 magazine with full-page reproductions, offers ample space to the artists to explain, defend and expand on their own efforts. After three issues and yards of prose. It Is seems to have proved that the painters are at least as confused about their work as the public is. Sample quotes...
...Minneapolis has been burly Professor Athelstan F. (for Frederick) Spilhaus, 47, dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, tossing his huge head at cocktail parties and spouting fantastic scientific ideas faster than water flows over Minnehaha Falls. Last year Spilhaus' friend, William Steven, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, hit on the idea of harnessing this awesome flow by getting the learned professor to do a scientific comic strip. As a result, a Spilhaus-scripted strip, Our New Age, now appears weekly in 102 U.S. and 19 foreign newspapers. The professor earns about...