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SHELLS Photographs by Andreas Feininger. Text by William K. Emerson. 295 pages. Viking. $27.50. This fine fat volume is neither a collector's guide nor a malacological text but, as Photographer Feininger puts it, "a shell-appreciation book." Emerson, curator of mollusks at the Museum of Natural History, provides the basic conchology, including a cautionary account of a species of cone-shell snails whose "dartlike radular delivery apparatus" can cause a fatal wound. There is also profit in shell collecting. At a recent auction, something called a Golden Cowrie, often found in the Fijis, went for more than...
...third annual New England Student Film Festival, featuring 80 original films, opens this evening in Emerson Hall. The three-day festival is co-sponsored by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...Born. To Emerson Boozer, 29, hard-charging halfback of the New York Jets and leading touchdown scorer in the N.F.L. this season (13 in the first nine games), and Enez Boozer, 30; their first child, a daughter; in Huntington, Long Island. Name: Keva...
Anti-hitchhiking ordinances were drafted by Boston and Cambridge last week in the aftermath of the killing of an Emerson College coed, who may have been murdered while hitchhiking to class...
...members at Harvard plan picketing and leafletting between Server and Emerson Halls this morning and distribution of armbands in the dining halls throughout...