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...Harvard Book Store is showing some contemporary paintings by young Korean painters, several of whom have won the Korean National Exhibition. Most of the works are examples of traditional Oriental themes--landscapes, bird and flower scenes, waterfalls--done in watercolor or brush and ink. All are for sale and most are expensive but a few show a control of color and technique that let them transcend the banality of their subject matter...
During the past decade, remarkable technological advances were made at papers where unions are weak or nonexistent. Machines were developed that could translate an edited story photographically into justified columns of print, without the intercession of printers, hot metal or ink. These new "cold type" procedures are dramatically faster; a photocomposing machine can spew out 150 lines a minute, compared to three lines a minute for a man and a Linotype. At a number of papers like the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Times-Herald, Miami Herald and Detroit News (TIME, Dec. 17), the technology is dazzling. Reporters compose their stories...
Just how much Herstatt lost is not known, but one estimate puts the red ink at $200 million, equal to a fourth of the bank's reported assets. In theory, the bank's founder, I.D. Herstatt, is personally liable for all losses, but he and other shareholders have only $30 million capital equity in the bank...
...Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World War II he taught at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., then shuttled between Paris and Mills until 1971. All the while he indulged his vast range of musical interests, dashing off finished pieces in one pen-and-ink draft without a piano...
...history at Yale, has pruned and selected this record. In the tradition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, he has created what he calls an "autobiographical biography." But it is more than that. From the Emperor's resplendent portrait on the dust jacket to the small ink drawings scattered throughout, the book is both an object of careful craft and a most imaginative example of low-profile scholarship in which Spence's obviously immense efforts scarcely show...