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Storm Center (Columbia) makes reading seem nearly as risky a habit as dope. Bette Davis, a peppery, small-town librarian, moves like Lady Bountiful among the worshipful peasants in her reading room, opening their purblind eyes to the treasure trove on the shelves around them. One book among the thousands, however, is a subversive tome entitled The Communist Dream. Bette never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan. "What," wonders Bette, "would Thomas Jefferson say to a request...
...from Europe and the Orient, a vast collection of erotica consigned to the Institute for Sex Research of Indiana University's Sexpatiator Alfred C. Kinsey. The Government last week gave Zoologist Kinsey and his sexociates until this month's end to show why the treasure-trove of pornography should not be destroyed. Protested Kinsey: "The issue involved is the right of a scholar to have access to material which is denied the general public." Among the material that the federals would deny to Scholar Kinsey: 1) six naughty Chinese paintings dating from about 1750, 2) some spicy Parisian...
...Treasure-Trove. To help Shoemaker keep tabs on the situation, the service clips everything about the subject from 60 dailies and 100 magazines, and accumulated books, pamphlets, speeches and court decisions-a growing treasure-trove for scholars present and future. The service gets daily queries from reporters and educators around the world; its headquarters was the first stop for a New York Times reportorial task force that prepared a special eight-page supplement on the problem this spring...
...paintings added up to $5,600,000 worth of art masterworks, ranging in period from late Renaissance to Braque and Matisse, in size from a 20-ft. Monet Nymphéas to an 11-in Madonna and Child by Dutch Master Lucas van Leyden. Owner of this treasure trove (plus an estimated 2,000 additional paintings and drawings and some 1,000 pieces of sculpture stacked away in apartments and warehouses): Multimillionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr., at 46 a retired business executive, a sometime book publisher, horse breeder, Broadway producer, collector of odds and ends from old racing magazines...
...spent a lifetime collecting this treasure-trove was a proud, bantam-sized Catalan who exploded onto the political scene in 1901 as founder of a Catalan regionalist party, rose to fame as an ardent spokesman for Catalonian autonomy. Hand in hand with Cambo's political success went his reputation as a financial wizard and "the Andrew Mellon of Spain." When Cambo's political party went down to defeat at the polls on the verge of Spain's civil war, Cambo wisely decamped, ended up in Buenos Aires, where he lived handsomely on the returns of his insurance...