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...Guggenheim was the patron of modern artists like Jackson Pollock, and with relatively small funds she has lined the walls of her Venice palazzo with one of the world's greatest collections of modern art. Roger Straus Jr. runs one of the country's best publishing houses, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and Iris Love has won fame as an archaeologist. For the most part, however, the old Guggenheim daring has disappeared, and the family fortune, divided and divided again by succeeding generations, was made smaller still by nationalistic foreign governments that demanded more of the swag from their minerals...
...profits of future Haldemans -and worthier authors-may indeed be crimped as a consequence of the Scranton caper. "This will blow the syndication market to hell," says Roger Straus Jr., president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Straus predicts that newspapers and magazines will now lower the amounts they are willing to pay for reprint rights. Even at the Post, William B. Dickinson Jr., head of the company's syndicate and book publishing arm, frets: "There's a question of whether there's a balance evolving in favor of public disclosure, as opposed to copyright and property right...
...PHOTOGRAPHY by Susan Sontag; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 207 pages...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 438 pages...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...