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Wealthy parent companies can afford to pay the bills. Helped by its highly profitable World Book Encyclopedia and a children's series called Childcraft, Field Enterprises earned about $7,000,000 last year despite the drain of the Daily News. The Tribune Co. is even richer. Among its gilt-edged properties are the New York Daily News,* a string of papers in Florida, and TV stations in Chicago, Denver and Duluth...
...Millard Fillmore Institute is Bear's most sincere tribute: he discovered in an encyclopedia that the nation's 13th President had turned down an honorary degree from Oxford on the grounds that he did not deserve it. Bear's aim: to promote a resurgence of Fillmore's rectitude...
...inspired and accompanied the work: the 30 variations based on a theme from the Anna Magdalena Pianobook composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1742. Just as Bach's music constitutes a lifetime lesson in keyboard knowledge, Robbins' variations in motion add up to a passionate yet restrained encyclopedia of dance. The Goldberg Variations, which has been made part of the City Ballet's repertoire, is a collaboration that transcends the centuries, a joint work of art as remarkable as the flawless translation of a great poem...
...Four years ago it won praise, and in church circles a degree of notoriety, for the erudite but controversial "Dutch Catechism.'' That ruckus will seem a mere parlor game compared to the brouhaha that is likely to greet Herder's latest effort, a show-and-tell encyclopedia of sex called The Sex Book...
...real sense. Even industry people themselves question how many people are going to be willing to pay $20 to $30 to see the same feature film over and over again, or even $5 to $10 to rent a cartridge of their favorite film. As A.N. Feldzamen of the Encyclopedia Britannica Corporation says in Variety, "People will probably not want to see the same film over and over again unless it is a particularly unusual 'sensation' type of film, viewed to turn on, or another special type. Pornography will probably be an exception to this rule." Indeed Feldzamen and others marketing...