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...Phaidon Press is the 15-year-old creation of a fiery little Viennese bibliophile, Bela Horovitz. Beginning in 1925 to produce art books on a large scale for the German market, he wratched his sales boom for several years, then decline after Hitler came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because...
Movies in full color of the Tercentenary Celebration in the Yard have been shown recently at various Alumni meetings around Boston by Samuel Horovitz '20, a Boston lawyer, who is official photographer for the Class of '20 Association...
...Horovitz was able to take shots from within four feet of the academic procession as it came down the steps of Widener, and got within 20 feet of the main platform, so his pictures are much superior to the black and white ones taken by the official University cameraman, who was stationed in a window in Thayer Hall, over 90 feet from the speakers...
...present no process has been invented for making duplicate copies of colored movies, so only one set of these Tercentenary films is available. Mr. Horovitz expects to give them to the University in the near future...
...Distressed Princeton underclassmen rely on John Gale Hun, who also runs the expensive Hun School (tuition: $1,800). Tutor Hun has a sizable staff, a man Friday in wiry John I. Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...