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Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee produces 30% more honey than either the Italian or German bee that long dominated Brazilian beekeeping: it will even work and make honey in weather that slows down other bees. Besides, Kerr planned to crossbreed his Africans to Produce a more gentle bee. What he got instead was a bee with a disposition so nasty that it now threatens the lives and livelihood of almost every beekeeper...
...Mademoiselle Editor Kerr's remark about fashion editors who "can scarcely read" [Aug. 13]: Edith Raymond Locke, Mademoiselle's fashion editor, both reads and writes. Mrs. Locke is frequently called on to write copy and always writes her own. Shopping bags of reading material are brought home nightly, and her first book will be published this fall...
...novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle fun at her home life in two rollick ing Jean Kerr-like novels (Raising Demons, Life Among the Savages); of a heart attack; in North Bennington...
...nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read for profit, party for contacts, lunch for contracts, bowl for unity, drive for mileage, gamble for charity, go out for the evening for the greater glory of the municipality, and stay home for the weekend to rebuild...
...college girl. But what clothes do the girls choose? More often than not, they select what the magazines have already selected for them. The process is less the profession of journalism than it is the practice of marketing. "The fashion editor never puts a line on paper," says Barbara Kerr, the astute managing editor of Mademoiselle. "Sometimes she can scarcely read." Every editor has her beat (evening dress, lingerie, shoes), and she spends most of her time hobnobbing with manufacturers to discover new styles she thinks may catch on. Periodically, samples are piled up in a conference room and scrutinized...