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...Weyerhaeuser Co., announcing first-quarter earnings of $17,005,000, named George H. Weyerhaeuser, 39, as president and chief executive officer, succeeding Norton Clapp, 60, who moves up to chairman. Weyerhaeuser, a great-grandson of the founder of the huge forest-products firm, made news at age 9, when he was kidnaped for $200,000 ransom. He was released after seven days, three kidnapers were caught, and most of the money was recovered...
...Rembrandt's Titus, sold last year to California Collector Norton Simon. At Sotheby's in London last week, a Flemish painting of St. George spitting the dragon brought $616,000. Since the oil, attributed to Hubert van Eyck, is the size of a postcard (5| in. by 41 in.), it cost a record $26,552 per sq. in. At the new record's rate, a canvas a yard square would cost $34,411,000, more than 15 times the highest price ever recorded for a painting. A Rembrandt etching, called the "Hundred Guilder" print for the healthy...
AUSTERLITZ by Claude Manceron. 318 pages. Norton...
...thanks to a small, red-haired man who works in Harvard Square, both David Norton and Mr. and Mrs. Paynter, all alive, were able to speak to their families the next...
Meanwhile, Norton's parents were sitting at home in Massachusetts, with no idea that their son was struggling for his life. The first word came two days later when the Associated Press released a short, vague story, that left both the Nortons and the friends and relatives of the Paynters afraid that the three researchers had lost their lives...