Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Alfred Knopf, 91, New York book publisher for 69 years who brought to American readers a large part of the best contemporary literature of Europe, the U.S. and Latin America; in Purchase, N.Y. With his indispensable assistant Blanche Wolf, whom he married in 1916 (she died in 1966), Knopf brought out his first books only three years after he left college (Columbia), employing a Russian wolfhound as the firm's colophon. He not only had an uncanny ability to discover new writers who went on to achieve permanence and literary prizes, but he also set and maintained...
...future. Perhaps the executive desk will become obsolete except as a status symbol to sit behind, not to write on. And what of the conference room of tomorrow? How about a congenial grouping of Jefferson lounge chairs, their occupants all watching the displays presented on their individual monitors? -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...Wolf Von Eckardt
...Reserve Mining Co. had been polluting Lake Superior. Lord was eventually removed from that case after a higher court accused him of "gross bias" against the company. In another case that had ecologists cheering, the judge refused to permit a trapping season for Minnesota's Eastern timber wolf; the decision caused considerable upset among farmers, who maintained that the wild predators were killing their livestock...
...does not get along easily with older, more urbane neighbors. One also shudders at the thought of mediocre imitations of Arquitectonica's audacity. It is inimitable. Only the young team's unique combination of skills could bring such fresh appeal and energy to the architectural scene. -By Wolf Von Eckardt