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...dazzling show, the quality of which can be measured by the brooding Giovanni Bellini from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City (see color). In further commemoration, the Phaidon Press has published a handsome book on the Kress Collection with text by Professor Charles Seymour Jr. of Yale (Art Treasures for America; $12.50). It is the curtain raiser for the complete seven-volume catalogue still to come...
...crucial question in decision theory is "how one decides to cope with the problem of subjective probabilities," William J. Fellner, Seymour H. Know Professor of Economics at Yale University, said here yesterday...
What saved the company was a breakthrough by Engineer Seymour Cray in the emerging field of solid-state computers. By using transistors instead of vacuum tubes, and cheap printed circuits instead of miles of intricate wiring, Cray developed Control Data's reliable and relatively cheap ($1,250,000) 1604 computer, thus enabling the company to introduce its solid-state computer on the commercial market neck and neck with the industry giants. But with success came new headaches. Sperry Rand, alleging that Norris & Co. were using pirated Sperry Rand trade secrets, sued to enjoin them from capitalizing on any more...
Backroom Gossip. Some of the most rewarding material are autobiographical reminiscences by writers who would not deign to confide to the slick-paper mass magazines. Thus, in effect, the little magazines form a kind of intellectual backroom where earnest highbrows can eaves drop on literary gossip. Seymour Krim (in Noble Savage) is scathingly honest about the pitfalls for a young writer desperate for integrity. Herbert Gold, in the same issue, takes a real cool look at death in the tinselly heat of Miami Beach...
...Seymour Levin, a bearded exile from Manhattan, the Pacific Northwest is the Promised Land. Standing beneath a night sky splashed with a million stars, breathing deeply of the forest air. Levin thinks, "Imagine getting all this for nothing!" He tramps for miles through the countryside, exchanging stares with cud-chewing cattle. He had never before seen a Hereford or a Black Angus and "they had never seen a Levin...