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...police detective Deborah Maceda grew increasingly disturbed by the evidence of crime run amuck. She found razor blades--perhaps for slicing pages out of books--in books and under shelves. During one eight-day period alone, she says, she discovered 33 mutilated books, including a rare 18th century anatomy folio. Other volumes had simply vanished...
...been involved in its own corporate melodrama. In 1990 Matsushita bought the company in a $6.6 billion deal arranged by the movie Mephisto, Michael Ovitz, chief of Creative Artists Agency. Profits were plentiful, thanks to a flourishing music division, helped by acquiring David Geffen's record holdings, and a folio of hit films, most of them produced by Steven Spielberg. And at first, Japanese-American relations were smooth. Then some of the Matsushita executives who were on good terms with MCA president Sidney J. Sheinberg were fired. Says MCA movie chief Tom Pollock: "I believe if the Matsushita administration hadn...
Harvard did receive the books that Johnbequeathed in their entirety. Then in 1764 a firein Harvard Hall consumed all but one of the books.John Downame's folio, "Christian Warfare Againstthe Devil, World, and Flesh," was saved--because astudent had failed to return the book on time...
...business suits and traveling in shiny cars, some equipped with phones, often make contacts in trendy restaurants or respectable offices. So enamored are most Filipinos of Western culture that the Communists have had to find a justification for "bourgeois pleasures." Argued an article in the Communist youth magazine Collegian Folio: "Boy George and break dancing . . . are minor questions in the category of fads that do not exert deep and long-lasting influences...
Before he died in 1912, Widener had collected 3,000 volumes of what he considered to be the 100 most important works in English literature. Whether saved because of their fine bindings or illustrious owners, the Widener collection heralds the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by Dickens, Donne, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Authors presented many of these volumes to royalty and friends. As a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, Widener was also inclined to collect books depicting fanciful costumes from France and Spain, says Henri K. Stegemeier, an associate curator of the Widener...