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Birch, one of the nation's foremost geo-physicists, yesterday abided by the long standing Harvard tradition of keeping the names of honorary-degree recipients a secret until the moment they are called to receive their diplomas...
...Geo was never the kind of magazine that Architectural Digest Editor in Chief Paige Rense wanted around the house. It was glossy and expensive ($4 per copy) all right, but it was also depressing. Too many images of death, disease and disaster. "Pictures of animals being slaughtered," she shudders. No dream houses on fantasy islands. All that is about to change. After two years and about $30 million in losses, the German publishers Gruner & Jahr have just peddled the monthly Geo (circ. 256,000) to Los Angeles-based Knapp Communications, which publishes Architectural Digest and Bon Appétit. Geo...
...Geo, admits Rense, is "not linguine or Louis Quatorze." But she is convinced that her upbeat formula can lift circulation to 500,000 and put the magazine into the black. She plans articles about travel, exploration, anthropology and archaeology, some of them written in the first person. "I think people enjoy reading about people." The magazine will be redesigned, starting with the cover, whose thick green border confused readers and newsstand dealers; it was hard to tell issues apart. Rense anticipates "close, intense involvement with Geo for the first six months," returning from Manhattan to her home in Beverly Hills...
...with loud optimism about the American reader and the American dollar, German publishers Gruner & Jahr introduced Geo magazine, a pricey ($4 per issue), richly produced journal aimed at luring young, up-scale readers away from National Geographic (circ. 10 million). Instead, Geo's diffuse, often pretentious photojournalistic essays drove many readers away; circulation reached only 256,000, short of the planned 300,000. A promotion campaign dubbing it The Earth Diary seemed a futile echo of the '60s. Last week, after losing about $30 million-plus three publishers and three managing editors-Gruner & Jahr sold their ad-starved...
Cornell had many modes, and they ran from the white abstract grids of his "Dovecotes," filled with one repeated geo metrical motif-a ball, a wooden cube -to his lush romantic tree grottoes filled with exotic birds. But to see him as a reclusive American eccentric, a man working solely out of private fantasy, is to miss one major point of his art: its continual dialogue with the work of other artists, not only the Renaissance and mannerist painters whose images he selectively filched (as in his Medici Prince and Medici Princess boxes), but also those of the 20th century...