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...Hulton Lewis III had an unusual ex-seance last night. Two people called to a moderate...
High Water-Wood, in the Hulton col lection, belongs to Klee's final works. It was painted in 1938, after Nazi interference had driven him back to Bern. Klee was dying of a rare disease which produced progressive drying of his body tis sues, and he knew it. Painted on newspaper with thick paint and broad strokes, High Water-Wood is one of the most private of Klee's works. Areas of green, yellow and blue are laid out with perfect harmony...
...Publisher Hulton ran into trouble. His erratic ideas for Picture Post were frequently at odds with Hopkinson's shrewd journalistic thinking. Moreover, the political views of Hopkinson, a far left-winger (though no Communist), were too strong for Conservative Hulton's taste. Their scrapping broke into the open after the Korean war began, when Hopkinson tried to run pictures showing South Koreans mistreating prisoners. Hulton fired him and marched in a succession of less talented editors who never struck Hopkinson's artful balance between popular picture features and solid-text pieces. Circulation dipped to 935,829, while...
Fortnight ago, Hulton Press reported that its earnings for 1951 had dropped from $895,000 to a meager $54,000 as a result of "heavy losses" on Picture Post "in particular." To put the once-robust magazine on its feet, the board named Hulton's Joint General Manager John W. Pearce, 38, as boss, and gave him a free hand to take drastic action. He did. Pearce slashed the price from sixpence to fourpence, the same as Illustrated, and guaranteed advertisers a circulation of 1,000,000 or better. If Picture Post failed to meet its guarantee, Pearce -announced...
...late Sir Edward Hulton, who, before he sold out to Lord Rothermere in 1923, owned one of the biggest chains of newspapers in Britain (Evening Standard, Daily Sketch, Sunday Chronicle, Sunday Times...