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Harvard will invest up to $13 million in small high-risk companies through five management firms located in Boston, New York and possibly on the West Coast, George Putnam '49, treasurer of Harvard College, said yesterday...
...relish it, was formulated and perfected in France between the 14th and 19th centuries. The recipes developed by La Varenne and La Chapelle, Brillat-Savarin and Beauvilliers (who founded the first recorded restaurant in France) are as practical and savory as ever. In The Grand Masters of French Cuisine (Putnam; 288 pages; $25), Celine Vence and Robert Courtine, two of France's most distinguished culinary authorities, have assembled some of the greatest formulas ever invented. It would be hard to resist the original instructions for boeuf mode as constructed by Pierre de Lune in 1656, or for preserved quinces...
Every dog has his day, and with the publication of The Literary Dog by William E. Maloney and J.C. Suarès (Putnam; 126 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper), he also has his book. Decorated with works by Hogarth, Toulouse-Lautrec, Velazquez and other masters, this anthology bristles with canine tales, poems and anecdotes. With more than 100 selections from the likes of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Twain and Thurber, the result is more than mere doggerel. There are, for instance, Odysseus' faithful Argus, who waits 20 years for his master's return, Goldsmith's poor mongrel who dies...
Dean Rosovsky addressed the AHA Thursday evening on the new Core Curriculum and George Putnam, University Treasurer, outlined the state of Harvard's financial investments yesterday...
...Putnam's speech on Harvard's investments was also well received. There was no mention of the controversy over Harvard's investment in corporations with operations in South Africa...