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While nearly everyone else strips down to tan, Mrs. Norton J. Carlson, 59, of Grand Junction, Colo., covers up for safety. For her, no suntan lotion the chemists can devise is ever likely to be good enough. When Mrs. Carlson set out on a 342-mile auto trip to visit her sister a few weeks ago, it was like minor royalty fleeing restless natives. She waited for nightfall in the shadows of her parlor. Then she put on a dress with extra-long skirt and sleeves, pulled up her gloves, wrapped a kerchief about her face, and stepped nervously into...
...profits 25% to $9,288,000. Its basic position is good: it has no debts, $117 million in working capital and a fourth-generation-seedling in Vice President Weyerhaeuser, 36,* who is ready to take over when his uncle, Chairman Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser, 68, and President Norton Clapp, 57, step down. Trained in Weyerhaeuser tradition since birth, George has the outlook of an executive prepared to wait, if not 80 years, at least 40 for his trees to grow. "We don't go out and shoot ourselves over one bad year," he says. "We're going...
...James came in 1961 was a relatively mediocre educational institution. But affiliated with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle...
...CLOCKWORK ORANGE (184 pp.)-Anthony Burgess-Norton...
Baroque opera laid the ground for all music drama that was to follow it, contended Leo Schrade at his fourth Norton lecture last night. The aim of all opera from then on was, he said, the declamation of human passion...