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...otter is coming back on the market. Under protection the herds have multiplied to a present population of some 40,000-enough so that Alaska has begun harvesting a strictly controlled number of pelts. Last week more than 100 buyers representing the world's top fur houses converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid...
...Tracy and Hepburn, whatever the social benefits of their friendship with Kramer, the creative harvest has been disaster. Always a good actor, Tracy emerged from a post-war recharging period literally the top. In George Cukor's Pat and Mike ('52), he gave the best of a memorable series of comedy performances opposite Hepburn, conclusively reconciling his own considerable presence ("treelike" to extend a comparison of Hepburn's) with acting. Bad Day at Black Rock ('55), though not a great movie, gave Tracy the chance to show off his genius freely and create a hero good for all violent communities...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "No Harvest for the Reaper" graphically documents the exploitation of migrant workers on Long Island potato farms...
...precipice of the civil war nearly brought on by the revolution. The central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as Tibet, Yunnan and Fukien. Despite the army's efforts to control the recent harvest, the peasants are hoarding a larger-than-usual share of the grain crop. Thus, despite a better harvest than last year, Peking's take has been poorer...
...revolutionary. When the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt's sun-drenched canvas, Strayed Sheep, was displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary he kept reads not a little like Van Gogh's. "Intensely miserable," Brown noted at one point. "Very hard up, and a little...