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SENSING that a historic agreement could be in the making, small knots of West Berliners began gathering one evening last week at the massive iron gates of the Allied Control Council's palatial headquarters in Kleist Park. Every so often, Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov or one of his aides would slip silently away on a mission to East Berlin-to consult, it was later disclosed, with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had flown in to oversee the crucial final stages of the 17-month-old talks on the future of Berlin. Then, shortly after midnight, the sound...
...Kleist? When Krock joined The Times, in 1927, he was al ready a leading figure in American journalism. He had been shot at while covering Kentucky elections for the Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I managed to crawl out of that fix"). As assistant to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer on the old New York World, he was as signed to "ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says...
Until the recent rise of book-jacket specialists, English publishers frequently paid recognized artists to design jackets. Since commercialized publicity jackets have proven ineffective in England, publishers have stressed tasteful, artistic appeals to a discriminating public. Kleist's favorite designer is Edward Ardizzone, an illustrator of children's books who Paints "typically English, Dickensian characters" in subduded watercolors...
...lack of time, space, and encouragement has prevented Kleist from working on a permanent display and a comprehensive card catalog for the two collections. Kleist hopes that someday a cooperative effort by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the School of Design, and the Fogg Museum will finance facilities and maintenance...
...Kleist collection should convince anyone that the essentially ephemeral craft of jacket-design has yielded an enormous quantity of sensitive and valuable art. Furthermore, jackets can represent important trends in graphic arts and book design. But in the end, the greatest value in their preservation, as Kleist points out, may be their interest to future generations as relics of a dead culture. As the late printing expert Holbrook Jackson said, "ephemera may prove to be reliable a guide to historians as the congeries of books in the Bodleian or the British Museum. The historian of the future may yet learn...