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...Stowe, a Vermont village tucked between well-worn ski slopes and hardscrabble homesteads, temperatures of-30° do not surprise. Frigidity being the stepmother of invention, David Putnam two years ago became proprietor of Stowe Woolens, Ltd., a manufacturer of sweaters and ski caps...
...join him. This, he hoped, would be the studio of the future, an artistic Arcadia with nine sound stages, 34 editing rooms and newfangled videotape-and film-editing technology designed to allow films to be shot and completed in five weeks, half the normal time. But when the proprietor tried to explain the marvels of his "electronic studio," his guests bombarded him with questions about the cash crisis that has imperiled One from the Heart, his $23 million fantasy about love in Las Vegas, and may sink Zoetrope altogether. Was the nation's premier moviemaker in trouble? Said...
...doomed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War and brought word to Britain of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Alas, it appears that the "Thunderer," as the Times has long been known, may soon meet its own Waterloo. Last month the paper's proprietor, Lord Thomson of Fleet, announced that the Times (circ. 315,700) and its sister Sunday Times (circ. 1,418,500) would be shut down if buyers were not found by next March. Last week Thomson, 57, gave some teeth to that deadline: all offers must be submitted...
...crowd of about 500 persons was standing next to the tracks when the fire occurred, Carl Shapiro, proprietor of the news stand in the station, said yesterday, adding that sparks also fell to the lower outbound level of the station...
This was John Bartlett, the mild and scholarly proprietor of the University Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., who was asked so often about the origin of some quotation or other that he decided in 1855 to print a small (295 pages) collection that he entitled Familiar Quotations. Out this month from Little, Brown, in which Bartlett eventually became a senior partner, is the 15th edition of his little collection, the first updating in ? twelve years. Now 1,540 pages, with 22,500 quotations, it is a sockdolager, Nearly 3,000 of the quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from...